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Neil Brown
@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk  路  activity timestamp 3 days ago

"Neil! Sign up for a free trial subscription to our new knowledge management tool for lawyers! It works on any device!

/me looks at vimwiki and git.

Nah! I'm good! Thanks!

#FOSS #lawfedi #vimwiki #git

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Jak2k 馃嚜馃嚭
@jak2k@mastodontech.de replied  路  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@neil Have you asked if it's available for FreeBSD as a native app?

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Neil Brown
@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk replied  路  activity timestamp 3 days ago

Basically, I am utterly spoiled by the wealth of amazing Free software people write.

It works for me. Really well.

It doesn't need to work for anyone else. And perhaps some people genuinely need, or simply prefer, "software for lawyers".

Personally, I don't feel the attraction.

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n8chz
@n8chz@hachyderm.io replied  路  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@neil From what I've seen some of the most high-control workplaces are vendors of "line of business" software. Nothing warms my heart more than professionals and businesspeople adopting open source technologies.

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Noujoum
@noujoum@ohai.social replied  路  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@neil hey @kroker_legal_berlin you may be interested in following Neil as he is a fellow lawyer using Open Source in his work

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James Wells
@nikatjef@mastodon.acm.org replied  路  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@neil
In my years as a system engineer, configuration management engineer, and as an infrastructure engineer. I have used a lot of commercial software and a lot of open source software and I have noticed that I have needed external support far more on commercial software.

Please note that at least three of the companies I have worked for actually paid for support licences for open source software...

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Neil Brown
@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk replied  路  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@nikatjef

> paid for support licences for open source software

Yes, it is great to be able to contribute back.

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jack
@jackeric@beige.party replied  路  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@neil I love and prefer free software, but wish they'd soften the "doesn't have to work for anyone else" a bit when thinking about accessibility, internationalisation, etc

meanwhile I'm certain my employer offers a legal case management system that's now Turbocharged With AI and has AI features and you can ask the chatbot for insights and to give you a summary, and when you encounter issues you'll have 24/7 access to another chatbot who'll tell you according to the app's documentation no errors are expected to happen so please can you try again

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Neil Brown
@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk replied  路  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@jackeric Yes, my comment was simply about me not wishing to come across as dictating what others should do, but rather my toot being about what I do.

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jack
@jackeric@beige.party replied  路  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@neil let me know if you'd like to try out our enterprise legal case management software and, if you end up paying for it, I think I'll get a nice kickback!

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Neil Brown
@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk replied  路  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@jackeric Ha!

EspoCRM ftw :)

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jack
@jackeric@beige.party replied  路  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@neil commission. I mean, commission

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Persephone
@mindpersephone@spookygirl.boo replied  路  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk "works on any device you say? Do you really want me to test that? I've got an arduino and a toaster here that bet you run on less devices than doom"

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Micha艂 "rysiek" Wo藕niak 路 馃嚭馃嚘
@rysiek@mstdn.social replied  路  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@neil but does it have eh ay?

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Neil Brown
@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk replied  路  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@rysiek probably for a premium...

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