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[Jonathan Thomas <jonathan.oomph@xxxxxxxxx>]

FYI:  Here is a really nice email I received yesterday.  I wanted to share
it with everyone.


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From: Luciano Ernesto Cruzado <mrlecatwork@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:58 PM
Subject: Thank YOU MAN
To: jonathan.oomph@xxxxxxxxx

First of all, excuse my english.

I've recently tried OPENSHOT, a user mentioned it in a blendernation comment
yesterday.

As an experienced multimedia user living in Argentina, i often found myself
frustrated by the video editing software available on ubuntu and linux in
general. In my country, the possibility of buying a commercial software
licence is a LUXURY, that sadly very few can afford. Off course piracy is an
easy way out, but a frustrating one too, more if you want to make a career
based in multimedia.

That's why i use ubuntu, and i fell in love with it. My first life savior
software was the powerfull blender, opening the 3d world to me and
many other artists, without any creative restriction. But the lack of  an
equal powerfull and really all-task-friendly video editor was allways
dissapointing to me. (and not only me, off course)

My first attempts on video editing, many years ago, when i was in my
learning process, where done in the great Adobe premiere (7 i think)
running over a pirate copy of win98se, with an old AT celeron 400... but i
managed to do several lo res editing anyway. And off course i teached myself
several tricks to save cpu processing memory.

So, you got the picture. I tell you all this because i want you to figure
HOW SIGNIFICANT is for me your OPENSHOT project.

I can spend several hours developing my skills to master a software, but i
cannot spend several hours just triying to figure out how to
make a simple basic action in a software that was supossed  to easily cover
that. Or triyng to find a workaround to bypass a limitation of that
software. And, again, i'm not the only one.

You, Jonathan, are a bless. I used the latest work in progress version of
open shot for only 5 minutes before writting you this letter.
I know how to recognize a GREAT software when i try it. And OPENSHOT IS
WITHOUT A DOUBT, the FIRST user friendly, powerfull, and made
for the artist video editor in Open source and free software All around.

So i want to THANK YOU, for sharing your years of expertice of programming
and designing great software. Thank you for your great criteria, skills and
most of all YOUR GENEROSITY.

What you have in your hands right now, this project, is A GIFT to people
like me. And i want to encourage you to keep going with such amazing work.
You are opening the gates to MANY, by using this software, or by following
your example.

You are making and giving this for free, and by doing it, you are making
this caotic and selfish world a little better.

And i have no DOUBT that in the long road, you will be very rewarded.

I'LL SPREAD THE WORD.



 BEST OF LUCK.


Luciano Cruzado.



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