Primeradiant Blog

Software, like information, should be free. Mind you, if somebody’s relying on donations from benefactors who use the software she wrote then it’s just possible she’ll starve. Of course, we’d like to think otherwise but I wouldn’t like to chance it.
The Open Source movement is awesome in that it can produce such effective solutions then offer them, at no cost, to the community. It must be frustratin for commercial operations but the biggest advantage of OSS is that you can usually get in touch with the developer if you find a bug or you want a feature added. I was told just this evening of an addition to the Open Office spreadsheet when a colleague asked for a rowcounter to be added; ask and ye shall receive. ‘course, if there had been no reponse to his plea, he was at liberty to roll up his sleeves and change the code himself. Free Open Source Software - as in freedom.