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A Topic for Discussion – Open Source Feature-Richness?

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 8, 2010

“The person making these comments is a professional writer who I
follow, with several books published. So the opinion about the
software not being feature rich is a valid issue and being too
complicated is something that I too find with writing software in
general. But that the author feels it is less feature rich because
it is Open Source, or more correctly, because it is free is
something that bothers me.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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