[Discuss] excuse me?

[Cody Swanson]

pw wrote:
> 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
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Unfortunately the GIMP (while a top notch piece of software) doesn't 
support RAW camera images (since they're a closed format) which is what 
keeps me from using it. My father does some graphic design and the 
reason he doesn't use the gimp is it lacks support for CMYK which is 
something he needs for print work.

My previous rant wasn't against any free software, I think free software 
is great, I use it every day! I just wish more commercial apps would 
port to Linux so end users who require them would have a choice.