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While FreeBSD has binary packages, just like Debian Linux or Arch Linux, which are handled by the pkg package manager, FreeBSD also has the ability to compile software from source, using user specific compile time configuration. The Arch Linux Build System is actually heavily inspired by the FreeBSD ports system.

Technical Reasons to Choose FreeBSD Over GNU/Linux

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The Draw tool was a particular favorite. It was inspired by the squeeze brush pens common in Japan that are capable of both thick and thin lines—perfect for very expressive drawing. More importantly we flipped the common pattern by drawing a thin line when moving slow and thick when fast. Nobody was doing this. It was considered too “unrealistic”. But to us, it was a natural outcome of designing tools as an activity for thinking and not a simulation of a real brush. When you draw, you move fast for bold strokes and slow for details. Our Draw tool mapped directly to those needs. You’ll find some version of this brush in most drawing apps today including Apple’s own PencilKit.

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The Owl and Between Bears

The essential elements common to both libel and slander actions are (1) the defendant’s making a defamatory statement; (2) publication to at least one other than the plaintiff of that statement; and (3) identification of the plaintiff as the person defamed.

Mass Communication Law in a Nutshell Chapter II Defamation and Mass Communication

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