Re: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"
On Fri, 07 Nov 2003 at 12:27:11 -0600,
Ron Johnson wrote:
[...]
> On the other end of the scale, there are, as far as I know, no
> OSS packages comparable to Reader Rabbit or Calendar Creator or
> Act! or EndNote or Quark.
You can compare Scribus to Quark.
> Some are ok, but in many cases, nothing is out there in the OSS
> world.
Up to the limits of the DMCA, there's always something out there.
Just maybe not with the polish, total feature set and
user-friendliness you'd expect from a comercially developed
product. The only exception perhaps would be the games.
For example, you can compare Blender (GPL) to Maya. Is the
comparsion good? Most likely not. But if all you want to create
is one-minute CGI video animation, you can get away with
blender. (At least that's the impression I get from the Blender
site's gallery.) Do you want desktop publishing on *n*x, you can
use Scribus. Is it better than Quark. Most likely not. But if
you want to layout your small office's newsletter it would do the
job just fine.
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