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Who said anything about "putting up with poor quality"? > This way of thinking is the reason Gimp will never be a viable competitor to Photoshop. Have you con

Who said anything about "putting up with poor quality"? > This way of thinking is the reason Gimp will never be a viable competitor to Photoshop. Have you contributed to Gimp in any way? How do you expect a barely funded project to compete with a multi-billion dollar company?

krapp 5y ago
> Who said anything about "putting up with poor quality"? you did... >> If we as consumers start saying "no, even if your product is better I will not sacrifice my long-term freedoms for the short-term advantage and convenience of your product (...)" >Have you contributed to Gimp in any way? No. I don't have the time or the specific domain knowledge, and as a tool I don't find it useful enough to use. Have you? I didn't see a name on the contributors' page[0] that resembles your username. >How do you expect a barely funded project to compete with a multi-billion dollar company? I don't know. I do know that isn't an argument that's going to convince anyone using Photoshop to switch over to Gimp. Maybe one of the millionaires that hang out here can do it. [0]https://www.gimp.org/about/authors.html https://www.gimp.org/about/authors.html
- rglullis 5y ago
  No, I did not. Making a priority to have free software in my stack is not the same as accepting anything "just because it is free". > I do know that isn't an argument that's going to convince anyone using Photoshop to switch over to Gimp. Gimp vs Photoshop is a somewhat bad example to the topic at hand (closed systems taking over free software that implement open protocols), so if you don't mind maybe we can go back to those? In this case, I am a backer of Mastodon. I also contributed to Pleroma and to the developers of Conversations (XMPP client). Nothing much (~100€/year), but I feel a lot better by contributing to them that I would ever feel by paying for Slack or Discord. The point is, it doesn't take a millionaire to do that. If companies took 5-10% of their IT budget to contribute to free alternatives of the closed software they use, perhaps they would quickly lessen their dependency on the closed software and free their resources.

krapp 5y ago

> Who said anything about "putting up with poor quality"? you did... >> If we as consumers start saying "no, even if your product is better I will not sacrifice my long-term freedoms for the short-term advantage and convenience of your product (...)" >Have you contributed to Gimp in any way? No. I don't have the time or the specific domain knowledge, and as a tool I don't find it useful enough to use. Have you? I didn't see a name on the contributors' page[0] that resembles your username. >How do you expect a barely funded project to compete with a multi-billion dollar company? I don't know. I do know that isn't an argument that's going to convince anyone using Photoshop to switch over to Gimp. Maybe one of the millionaires that hang out here can do it. [0]https://www.gimp.org/about/authors.html https://www.gimp.org/about/authors.html

rglullis 5y ago
No, I did not. Making a priority to have free software in my stack is not the same as accepting anything "just because it is free". > I do know that isn't an argument that's going to convince anyone using Photoshop to switch over to Gimp. Gimp vs Photoshop is a somewhat bad example to the topic at hand (closed systems taking over free software that implement open protocols), so if you don't mind maybe we can go back to those? In this case, I am a backer of Mastodon. I also contributed to Pleroma and to the developers of Conversations (XMPP client). Nothing much (~100€/year), but I feel a lot better by contributing to them that I would ever feel by paying for Slack or Discord. The point is, it doesn't take a millionaire to do that. If companies took 5-10% of their IT budget to contribute to free alternatives of the closed software they use, perhaps they would quickly lessen their dependency on the closed software and free their resources.