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What's Missing from Free Software?

Posted by Cliff on from the finding-those-stray-puzzle-pieces dept.

dan.hunt asks: "Klaus Knopper was interviewed here and the interviewer, technobeast, asked: 'If you were asking the questions, what would be the 1st one you would ask?' Klaus answered in part 'What are you missing in the available Free Software, and how would you like to change that?'"

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  1. What is missing? Honest labelling by AtariAmarok · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    What is missing much of the time is honest labelling. At download.com, much of what is called "free" or "freeware" is really crippleware.

    Consider the soundstream-to-MP3 program that is labelled free but is really ridiculously crippled in the free version (record 15 seconds!) and has "pay $49 to upgrade now" banners all over the place.

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