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[Andy Finch <we.rocked.in79@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That makes a nice change to get an email like that - makes all the work
worthwhile :-)

2009/11/25 Jonathan Thomas <jonathan.oomph@xxxxxxxxx>

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