Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On 02-Jul-07, at 9:54 PM, krishnakant Mane wrote:
so from the experiences of many like Niyam, Dr. Nagarjun and many others I can say inkscape is pritty good enough.
but no where as good as corel draw or adobe illustrator. To make my point clear: last week I had the pleasure of driving around in a Rewa for 4 days. The Rewa is an electric car, max speed about 45 kmph, no gears. It is comfortable for two people and especially within the city is very convenient to drive. It is noiseless and non-polluting. If everyone drove around in Rewas, our cities would become paradises. It fulfilled all my needs - got me from point A to point B in comfort and without pollution. So how do I convince my friend to switch from his mercedes to a Rewa? Tell him that Rewa is as good as a mercedes? It is not. It doesnt have 10% of the features of the mercedes. But it is eco-friendly, which the mercedes is not. So my friend will only shift if he is convinced that using an eco-friendly car is more important than the other features that a mercedes offers
While I agree with your opinion about being honest about the performance of Libre alternatives to highly expensive closed softwares, I feel the example you used is flawed.
First about performance of Libre software vs expensive closed software. I tell users that the libre version may not have the glitter and decoration of closed versions but it gets the work done and since it is free as in freedom, it has full potential to improve its performance with later free upgrades. Closed softwares have everything ready made but up to a certain limit. There will be no limit in libre types. The human mind is the limit. I request the user to at least make a beginning and use the libre software as it is a peoples' software, a community effort meant to empower the common man with legal professional tools that can be setup at low cost for entrepreneurs with the added advantage of no vendor lock-ins.
The second part about the car. You have compared a very low budget India car with a high end German luxury car. If you want to compare eco friendly cars with high end luxury ones then you must give examples of the ones being developed in foreign countries. There they have developed various types of eco friendly versions running on electricity or alternate fuels and they tend to be more expensive than the regular cars as they use latest technologies and special materials. They are meant to preform just like luxury cars and have the added advantage of being eco friendly. I cannot recall any individual models but such news and videos regularly come on BBC or now DW TV and Discovery channel.
I would also request list members to stick to technical points in discussions and avoid any personal remarks about any member.