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You also have to account for the amount of work it once took, and the mindset that creates. It's another domain entirely as a result. The fact that Audacity or
by sneakernets 8y ago
You also have to account for the amount of work it once took, and the mindset that creates. It's another domain entirely as a result.
The fact that Audacity or GIMP exists at all and was free was shocking to a lot of us. Programming audiovisual stuff competently took knowing the CPU on a machine-code level if you wanted to get a usable program (and wanted clients to be able to get something done in weeks, not months) and the idea of doing all that work for free would just get belly laughs from most folks.
There's a reason the highly optimized stuff still costs hard money, and it's not due to hubris.
- slondr 8y agoYep. There's a reason that the GIMP project also spawned one of the most widely-used graphical abstraction layers in desktop computing history.
- blattimwind 8y agoUnless you count all Windows frameworks as just Windows that seems like a stretch. Also the reason is "A small company misjudged how to-the-letter-of-the-law GPL developers were", perhaps with a sprinkle of "some people rather maim C than using anything else".
- pantalaimon 8y agoI think what GP referes to is that Gimp started the GimpToolKit, otherwise known as GTK which is the foundation of Gnome.
- blattimwind 8y agoYes and I'm referring to Win32, WinForms, WPF, UWP/WinUI, Cocoa and Qt are very likely more widely deployed. Though even the last place of the commonly used frameworks is still relatively widely used.