[Discuss] excuse me?

[pw]

Cody Swanson wrote:
> 10-4, just chiming in on the free vs open debate side of things. This is 
> a pretty active list, gave me some entertainment today. :-)
> 

Just for the record, I have used both photoshop  and gimp
extensively. The gimp, if you know how to use it, kicks
photoshop butt. Getting people to work long enough outside
of their narrow range of experience is the problem there.

People tend to learn one way of doing things and then
stop learning. ie: windows, photoshop, dreamweaver, McDonald's,
Pepsi (<---Stallman), Matlab, R, Octave, linux.... etc

There are, of course, only so many hours in a day. It's
impossible to try every package or know every package well
enough to always get the best one, as opposed to the one you're
used to using. It becomes more economical, at some point, to stick
with the stone axe rather than spending the time to drop-forge
a chainsaw.


Peter