Poll: Which freeware would cost the most?

[vbMark]

What freeware program would you say that if it were to go commercial would
be the most expensive or could ask for the most amount of money?

 

[Zaphod]

DVDShrink
since using it I have had several of my originals decide not to play on
a DVD player, no problems.. backup the original leaving out the menus
etc and watch my movie

 

[Steve H]

What freeware program would you say that if it were to go commercial would
be the most expensive or could ask for the most amount of money?

I'd have thought either the various OS's, or a suite...like Open
Office.

Regards,

 

[mckyboyz]

Freeware that would be expensive once turned commercial/shareware:

Wink - Presentation creator

http://www.debugmode.com/


BeCyPDFMetaEdit - Edit PDF bookmarks etc

http://www.becyhome.de/becypdfmetaedit/description_eng.htm

 

[George]

I use CamStudio presentation tool that is similar to Wink (listed
above). I have found similar programs cost $300 but CamStudio and Wink
are free.

 

[John Corliss]

What freeware program would you say that if it were to go commercial would
be the most expensive or could ask for the most amount of money?

I would say that it would be a toss-up between The Wimp and OpenOffice.org.

--
Regards from John Corliss
I don't reply to trolls like Andy Mabbett, Doc (who uses sock puppets)
or Roger Johansson, for instance. No adware, cdware, commercial
software, crippleware, demoware, nagware, PROmotionware, shareware,
spyware, time-limited software, trialware, viruses or warez for me, please.

 

[Craig]

What freeware program would you say that if it were to go commercial would
be the most expensive or could ask for the most amount of money?

The longer I think about the question, the more I get tangled in it.

The top 5 I can think of are all open source. So, if any one package
did go commercial, the OSS community would simply regroup and start
something else that was F/OSS. On top of that, Sugar & any number of
Linux vendors /are/ making money off what they make freely available.

See? The Mark's question is escherian!

-Craig

1) Linux
2) SugarCRM (customer relationship management)
3) GIMP
4) OpenOffice
5) Scribus (desktop publisher)

 

[John Corliss]

I would say that it would be a toss-up between The Wimp and OpenOffice.org.

Eh... make that "The Gimp". Sorry.

--
Regards from John Corliss
I don't reply to trolls like Andy Mabbett, Doc (who uses sock puppets)
or Roger Johansson, for instance. No adware, cdware, commercial
software, crippleware, demoware, nagware, PROmotionware, shareware,
spyware, time-limited software, trialware, viruses or warez for me, please.

 

[M.L.]

I'd have thought either the various OS's, or a suite...like Open
Office.

Agreed. I'd also like to add InkScape, since there are not that many
high-end vector editing programs out there, and they tend to be
expensive.

I know someone will eventually nominate Gimp, but there's a lot of
competition with paint programs, and, in spite of what some here
claim, Gimp is too far behind Photoshop in capabilities and features
to be considered a serious competitor in the high-end
paint/photo-editing market.

 

[Craig]

I know someone will eventually nominate Gimp,

I already did...

in spite of what some here claim, Gimp is too far behind Photoshop in
capabilities and features to be considered a serious competitor in
the high-end paint/photo-editing market.

M.L.

What do you base the above statement on? If you were to point out one
or more capabilities/features where Gimp's fallen behind, what would
they be?

tia,
-Craig

 

[M.L.]

I already did...


M.L.

What do you base the above statement on? If you were to point out one
or more capabilities/features where Gimp's fallen behind, what would
they be?

tia,
-Craig

Oh dear. Does Gimp support the following NEW features of Photoshop?

Support for XMP image file metadata

Cloning with perspective matching

After scanning multiple images on a single page, the app can
automatically crop, straighten, and apply unique filenames to each
created image

Event-based scripting support with custom variables

Macros

Sophisticated CMYK and pre-press support

Reading and writing PDF files

Wrapping an image around any shape or stretching, curling, and bending
an image

GIF animation creation

Image optimization

Camera RAW support

Text on a path

De-fringing tool to smooth out aliased masking outlines

Background eraser

Photoshop also allows fine-tuning of its features

Tool to deinterlace video

JavaScript rollovers

Image slicing

History Brush

Contact sheets

Project collaboration

Menu customization

Support for 32-bit images

Batch processing

Correcting of common lens distortions, such as barrel and pincushion,
and fix chromatic aberrations and vignetting.

Too many more to remember and list.

 

[Craig]

Oh dear. Does Gimp support the following NEW features of Photoshop?

Interesting exercise. That was one heck of a list, thanks! Some of the
things on there, GIMP will probably never do. For example, "reading and
writing PDF files." But then Adobe probably has that wrapped up, eh? I
imagine this is analogous to the MSOffice vs OpenOffice.org arguments.
OpenOffice.org always trails in number of "features" found in MSO.

Is the GIMP "to far behind...to be considered a serious competitor?"
For the majority of things, no. But for other tasks, such as reading
and writing PDF files, it's probably still best to look elsewhere.

-Craig


I. GIMP supports the following NEW features of Photoshop

Support for XMP image file metadata

Cloning with perspective matching

Sophisticated CMYK and pre-press support

GIF animation creation

Image optimization

Camera RAW support

De-fringing tool to smooth out aliased masking outlines

Background eraser

Tool to deinterlace video

Image slicing

Event-based scripting support with custom variables

Batch processing

Wrapping an image around any shape or stretching, curling, and
bending an image

Menu customization

JavaScript rollovers

History Brush

Correcting of common lens distortions, such as barrel and pincushion,
and fix chromatic aberrations and vignetting.

II. Better Open Source Tools for the Task

Text on a path -see Inkscape
Contact sheets

-see JIBS

III. Don't know/Don't understand

Photoshop also allows fine-tuning of its features

IV. Very funny

Reading and writing PDF files

V. I don't /think/ GIMP supports these NEW features of Photoshop

After scanning multiple images on a single page, the app can
automatically crop, straighten, and apply unique filenames to each
created image