The magic of open source programs has hit home today. I tried to find my old Photoshop CS3 and Office 2007 discs today... to no avail. So i decided to try what I thought before were inferior programs, such as OpenOffice and The GIMP.
Well to be honest I always knew that Open Office was superior because of it's compatibility with every known file format and (decent) plugins. But GIMP took me by surprise when I used it for a bit earlier. It has full Photoshop .psd and Paint Shop Pro compatibility, which was extremely surprising, down to every last layer the compatibility was perfect with everything I had used.
I have alse been using 7-Zip and VLC for years, but no-one in their right minds would use any other program with such functions as these two. Truly superior in nearly every way. The only downfall of these open source programs that I can see is the lack of support, by phone and email. I think that this is the only thing holding back these fantastic programs from the big time that Microsoft has achieved with its OS and Office programs and Adobe in the PDF, Photoshop and Video Editing departments.
Actually I don't know of a good decent open source video editor. If anyone can point me to one, it would be much appreciated.
Donate to these lovely programs, cause I have. They all deserve it for the hard work that goes into them and it would be a shame to see any of them go under or stop being developed.
