What is the difference

kombizz

Joined: 2004-07-29
Posts: 2
Posted: Thu, 2005-12-15 01:09

I just found your site tru searching. It seems to be alright. I do have few questions which I would appreciate if you answer me.
1- what is the difference between Zip & Tar.gz columns?
2- Also if I would like to have you as a host, what does it cost me and what should I do?
3- Also how do you survive if you give all of these good website tools to people like me? In another words how do you get your money from?
Thanks.
 
valiant

Joined: 2003-01-04
Posts: 32509
Posted: Thu, 2005-12-15 01:14

1 - zip and tar-gz are two different archive formats. probably your archive program (e.g. winzip) can unarchive both. no difference concerning the contents of the download

2 - we don't host websites, we develop free software (Gallery 1 and 2 + Gallery Remote) and offer free support for our software

3 - we do this in our free-time, it's not our day-time job. we don't get / expect any money from Gallery users, it's just a hobby for us. though, we receive some donations and we have now some ads on the website which help us paying the bandwidth bills etc. :)
 
kombizz

Joined: 2004-07-29
Posts: 2
Posted: Tue, 2005-12-27 17:49

Thank you for your kind answer.
I appreciate people like you, who care about people by producing tools (in this instant, friendly softwares) in order people show and share their art works to other people with the same wavelengths. In another words you are like a bridge engineer who design and build that bridge between people.
I wished Mr Bush in America use your talents and made a bridge of peace between Western and Eastern People, especially Palestinian People who has been suffered for many decades.
Namaste', Shallom, Salam, and many more blessing to you all.
 
valiant

Joined: 2003-01-04
Posts: 32509
Posted: Tue, 2005-12-27 18:22

heh, thanks for your kind words.
while i appreciate the people behind open-source projects and "other" community services, we shouldn't exaggerate here :)
of course you can achieve a lot with open-minded and willing people, but something like the Palestinian/Israeli conflict is much more complicated than our small software-world.
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