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Hi buddy,<br>
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thanks for your esteemed review of Digikam. In your case I can only
recommend Photoshop, which I am told is a splendid alternative to DK<br>
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I wouldn't bet that the DK community is such a hotbed of terrorists
that Gilles would have been strong-armed by the French government to
open a backdoor in DK...<br>
<br>
Keep up the good work educating the populace<br>
Cheers<br>
<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:cgw993@aol.com">cgw993@aol.com</a> thus spake on 02/09/13
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<p class="MsoNormal">Greetings,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I just installed Digikam. My review of the
software so far –<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">1. Digikam opened at least 3 separate
connections the internet. Why?! I had to shut these
connections down with my firewall. The program certainty
does not make this obvious to any typical user. I think
there may have been more than 3 but its late and I will search
more tomorrow before I uninstall it. There can be no
legitimate reason for this and this was not disclosed
explicitly on installation. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2. Digikam does not make it easy to
navigate drives/folders on the computer to find photos. This
is the entire point of photo management software to begin
with! It seems more designed to get the user to relinquish
control of their current photo organization to digikam.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">3. To newer users of "open source". Free
software does not mean the software will not spy on you, or do
things you would resent, or anything else the developer(s)
maybe have wanted it to do. It does mean though that the
software can be changed because the source is available. A
good example of free software that spies on its users is
Ubunto. Users did not like this, so a modified version was
made that did not spy on the users. Free software makes this
possible. Please see Richard Stallman's youtube video on
Ubunto.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Profiting by spying on and data mining
users data is fine I guess, as long as the user has given
EXPLICIT permission to do this every time, not via some vague
end user license agreement that nobody reads. Digikam has
not made adequate disclosure to it's users. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u>My Digikam review Grade –</u><u><span
style="font-size:20.0pt"> F<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:20.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Requested
Modifications - Do not spy on or data mine users photos or
any other data, or do anything else without the users
explicit and clear consent! Allow users to easily navigate
their own photos. If spying on the users must be a feature,
THEN DISLCOSE IT CLEARLY!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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