Phil Thane
Most writers need software. We know of one who is also a textile artist who embroiders her poems onto hand-woven cloth but for the rest of us, the need to commit words to digital media of some kind is a given. Many of us need to tweak photos too, maybe add a drawing, a chart or graph. If we’re even moderately successful we’ll need to keep accounts and pay tax and that’s easier with the right software too.
Free software is very big business, Google uses it, and develops a lot of it. Android is based on a free operating system called Linux. Every social network is built on free software. Amazon and many other e-commerce sites rely on it. Big IT companies give away free software and then sell lucrative support contracts to other big companies. Even Microsoft uses Linux on its own servers, Apple’s OSX and iOS are both based on a free system called BSD.
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