The PerfectOffice runs mostly on open source@@ technology; DebianLinuxJustWorks, OpenOfficeInstall, galeon, evolution, mozilla (maybe), xchat, ...
But I haven't found an open source solution for these tasks:
- OCR. DebianPackage:gocr sort works, a little bit. But it's nothing close to the interactive scan-and-fix support in, say, Adobe Acrobat.
- LegacyVideo
- videoconferencing for RemotePresence. DebianPackage:gnomemeeting is getting there; I think firewall obstacles actually dominate software issues these days.
10Jul2003 How should we encourage donations for software? article on advogato reminds me... inspired by AaronSw?, I've started to put my money where my mouth is, donating to EFF, Debian (SPI), etc.
The "bad guys" have lots of money because we give it to them. In a land of one-dollar-one-vote, give money to the guys you want to win. It just makes sense.
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