Software for starving students
2007-01-04-Thursday | Computer
Software for starving students is
a CD with free software for Mac and Windows. I
think software for starving students is a great
effort, but I don't really see the point of the
CD since all of them can just be downloaded
straight off the net. Why not just provide a
list (which they also do 
)?
Personally, I prefer opensourcemac.org since it's about opensource software and not just "free" (as in beer) software.
The word "free" can be interpreted in two different way. Free as in "free beer" and free as in "free speech". With opensource, you get both. This means that you (or anyone else) can modify the source of the application. If you are not a programmer, the gain from this is that there are many many programmers that might want to solve the same problem as you have, or add the same feature you want. This is a reason that free (speech) software is to prefer over free (beer) software.
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Personally, I prefer opensourcemac.org since it's about opensource software and not just "free" (as in beer) software.
The word "free" can be interpreted in two different way. Free as in "free beer" and free as in "free speech". With opensource, you get both. This means that you (or anyone else) can modify the source of the application. If you are not a programmer, the gain from this is that there are many many programmers that might want to solve the same problem as you have, or add the same feature you want. This is a reason that free (speech) software is to prefer over free (beer) software.
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