Re: Creating a gallery of images

GOod points.   I hope you ended up with the information you needed.

Cheers,
Mike Kear


>From: "Harshdeep S. Jawanda" <harsh(at)pspl.co.in>
>To: Mike Kear <choicemag(at)hotmail.com>
>CC: HWG Techniques <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
>Subject: Re: Creating a gallery of images
>Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2000 21:38:26 +0530
>
>
>Mike Kear wrote:
>
> > You make it sound like the only measure of software's worth is whether 
>or
> > not it's free.
>
>Sorry, I suppose its due to lack of communication skills on my part. That 
>isn't
>what I meant. All I meant was that *buying* anything is a strict no-no for 
>me
>because it isn't convenient for me to do so. Hence the preference for 
>freebies
>:-). I should have mentioned this while asking for help. Anyway, your reply 
>did
>help me: it added a little to my knowledge base :-). Thanks.
>
> > If FREE had been a part of the equation, I wouldn't have made any reply.
> > My experience of 30+ years in IT is while there are lots of free 
>programs,
> > they are rarely free in total cost.  There's usually a price to be paid 
>in
> > that there's no installation help or they are difficult to maintain or 
>some
> > such.
>
>You definitely have a point there.
>
> >  I have no idea what your PERL routines are like,
>
>I'll give you an idea: they're BAD :-))!!
>
> > my experience of freeware is you usually get what you pay for.
>
>I beg to disagree (a little). My experience with GNU s/w has been many 
>orders of
>magnitude more pleasant (generally speaking) than with anything that had 
>the
>name Microsoft anywhere even near it. But then, I don't speak from a simple
>user's viewpoint: if I did, I'd be agreeing a lot with your statement.
>
> > Be happy with your freeware, there might be others interested in that 
>too.
> > I'm happy with my solutions.  They work well for my shop and we can 
>quickly
> > produce what we need and rarely have clients wanting them changed 
>because
> > they dont like the quality.
>
>Yes, paid-for solutions work better for a much greater number of people 
>than
>freeware. But once you learn to use the right type of freeware (which isn't 
>very
>pleasant :-), its big-payback time, folks :-).
>
>--
>Regards,
>Er. Harshdeep Singh Jawanda.
>

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