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They can do with their time whatever they want, but creating a fork to remove all light-hearted and fun parts of a software feels a bit dumb.
by jansan 6y ago
They can do with their time whatever they want, but creating a fork to remove all light-hearted and fun parts of a software feels a bit dumb.
- karatestomp 6y agoEven Excel has (had?) a secret flight sim.
- throwanem 6y agoNot for a quarter century now, more or less. Whimsy is a wonderful thing, taken in moderation. It has no place in tools meant for serious work.
- lynndotpy 6y agoHad -- Microsoft has essentially had a no-easter-eggs policy since at least 2002 as part of their "Trustworthy Computing" initiative. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trustworthy_computing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trustworthy_computing They have a blog post from 2005 on the matter: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/larryosterman/why-no-easter-eggs https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/larryosterman... > One of the aspects of Trustworthy Computing is that you can trust what's on your computer. Part of that means that there's absolutely NOTHING on your computer that isn't planned. If the manufacturer of the software that's on every desktop in your company can't stop their developers from sneaking undocumented features into the product (even features as relatively benign as an Easter Egg), how can you be sure that they've not snuck some other undocumented feature into the code.
- Drdrdrq 6y agoIronic, given the tracking built into Windows 10 Home.
- frenchyatwork 6y agoOh, that was very much planned.
- enriquto 6y agoThis "Trustworthy computing" thing is 100% bogus if you cannot compile the code yourself.
- Avamander 6y agohttps://www.zdnet.com/article/what-is-windows-10s-windows-feature-experience-pack/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/what-is-windows-10s-windows-fe... Hmm.
- throwanem 6y agoIf Gimp implementors had spent less time on "light-hearted and fun" and more on boring but actually important stuff like rendering text well, I might not have spent the last decade or so steering everyone I possibly can away from Gimp and toward Photoshop for professional work. I took a chance on the Gimp because I believed in the cause - I wanted it to be a viable alternative to Photoshop. It very nearly cost my firm a contract big enough that losing it would probably have put us out of business - and would certainly have put me out of a job. Software that screws up that badly doesn't get a second chance.
- renewiltord 6y agoWell, I suspect they build the thing to the degree they need the thing. I use GIMP for some stuff but I can't draw on it like I can draw on Krita, for instance. Pity it didn't work for you.
- prokoudine 6y ago> I took a chance on the Gimp ... It very nearly cost my firm a contract big enough that losing it would probably have put us out of business... Software that screws up that badly doesn't get a second chance. I'll be 100% blunt and unpleasant here, OK? You tried using this software in production without prior testing. And yet somehow the developers of that software are to blame? I'm afraid, this means that in the decade that passed since then you learned nothing.
- throwanem 6y agoWho said anything about a lack of prior testing? I hadn't used it with such a business-critical client before, but that's not the same as saying I hadn't used it before. It's also not the same thing as saying I am, or then was, a fool. But your own uncharitable and erroneous assumptions are your concern, not mine, for all that they and others like them have long since ceased to surprise me in the context of criticizing a beloved FSF flagship product.
- prokoudine 6y ago
- mtmail 6y agoThe write 'fewer', not to remove all. And it's one of many changes listed, not the main one.