"And if you have free software, you can make the business decision to give a thousand people in your company, all experiencing the same problem, you can make the business decision to fix that problem, send that fix back, and make it work. I'm not saying we can get rid of the whole $5 gap. But if we can get it down to $2, that means we save as a world economy $3 billion a day. That would almost pay for the war in Iraq. Thank you very much."

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An image viewer (also known as image browser) is a desktop application that can quickly display or handle stored graphical images in different graphics file formats. It can render images according to properties of the display such as display resolution, color depth, and color profile. Other image viewers have advanced features like editing and web publishing.

This article explains the new features in Python 3.0, compared to 2.6. Python 3.0, also known as "Python 3000" or "Py3K", is the first ever intentionally backwards incompatible Python release. There are more changes than in a typical release, and more that are important for all Python users. Nevertheless, after digesting the changes, you'll find that Python really hasn't changed all that much - by and large, we're mostly fixing well-known annoyances and warts, and removing a lot of old cruft.