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[Why Tea]

I prefer small, quick, single function apps. It's been my experience that

programs that have 1 general function are better than programs that try to
do too many things. One doesn't normally want their calculator playing
MP3's, or their MP3 player to have a built-in spreadsheet. There are gray
areas where multi-functions make sense, if the program is well executed.

Can't totally agree on this one. Who in the right mind will design a
calc/spreadsheet in an MP3 player? A more realistic example, how about
having a VFS in a file manager? Do you think that's a bad idea?

Everyone can set his/her criteria for the "best" freeware. But I think
the criteria here definitely is too narrow...

 

[Why Tea]

I prefer small, quick, single function apps. It's been my experience that

programs that have 1 general function are better than programs that try to
do too many things. One doesn't normally want their calculator playing
MP3's, or their MP3 player to have a built-in spreadsheet. There are gray
areas where multi-functions make sense, if the program is well executed.

Using an example of calculator playing MP3 is absurd. Who in the right
mind would even think of something like that?

As MS is manily a GUI environment, "small, quick, single function apps"
are OK if the function is relatively complex, e.g. a text editor. Would
you like to use a GUI to do dir, one to do cacls, one to do rename,
etc?

I think the rating system is too narrow minded. It seems to me like a
sub-category of the whole freeware categories.