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My point is that including "barely good enough" by default hinders the development of other open source apps for the platform. I know nothing about Krita other
by melling 8y ago
My point is that including "barely good enough" by default hinders the development of other open source apps for the platform.
I know nothing about Krita other than its existence. I imagine there are other options.
- zamalek 8y agoPaint.NET is probably the best option, but Microsoft would probably have to fork it as the UI has novelties (floating panels and so forth, which non-technical users might struggle with). The hard thing about Paint is that it fills a similar niche to Notepad or Nano. > hinders the development of other open source apps for the platform. Filling the same niche as Paint is hardly improving the world. As soon as your Paint clone does anything innovative it fails to fall inside the constraints of Paint. As a simpler example, any Notepad clone that added, say, tabs would instantly fail to be a Notepad replacement. I'd seriously question how much value OSS competition (consisting of a native textbox and menu bar) is adding to the world. Edit: Just because OSS can compete doesn't mean it should.