12th March, 2018.
I have to admit, I was never that much of a fan of Ken Dodd.
But? It’s sad to hear that Britain’s last variety star has gone.
Frankly?
I was never much of a fan of either the man, or the form.
It, and he, never appealed.
I think that’s my lose.
With Dodd’s death?
I’ll no longer have the chance to see what made him special …
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Something occurred to me, yesterday.
Money.
I’ve used all sorts of software, over the years.
And, where appropriate? I’ve used free, open source, software as a mainstay.
Firefox gets updated well past other browsers, from what I’ve seen.
Media player,
vlc? Can handle everything that’s thrown at it.
Then there’s things like
OpenOffice.org, and its various spin-offs: LibreOffice and NeoOffice are the two I’ve used.
They can handle most
Microsoft Office files.
I’ve also heard the argument many give me: that they need
Word, Excel or PowerPoint for work.
But have pick up the impression that actually, we don’t.
We just need something that can open and save as,
Word, Excel or PowerPoint files.
With that in mind, I actually went and had at Microsoft’s website for
MS Office: just to check up their prices.
It’s £59·99 to £79·99 for a years worth of
Office 365 subscription: compared to something like GoogleDocs, for free! (Which, strictly, isn’t an app: nor, necessarily, open source.)
Microsoft also charge £119·99 for the downloadable
Office app: compared to LibreOffice or OpenOffice: capable of doing the same jobs … for free.
Just as an extra question, today, especially for those readers who’ve never come across the idea of legitimate, free of charge, software?
How much do you want to pay?
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