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Yeah, it really bummed me out too. People don't remember when there was literally nothing and having this free photo editor was a life saver. They also don't kn
by jdhendrickson 4y ago
Yeah, it really bummed me out too. People don't remember when there was literally nothing and having this free photo editor was a life saver. They also don't know how stupidly complex that kind of software is to write.
Just a lot of sneering, and not from anyone whose done anything worth a damn based on a cursory examination of their accounts.
I was hoping to read a ton of posts about good memories, or thanks, to the project but I wish I hadn't opened it now.
- whywhywhywhy 4y agoI dunno, I mean look what every GIMP alternative has achieved in a fraction of the timeframe. Starting to think this “you should be happy and eat this rotten morsel because otherwise you’d have nothing” ideology is toxic and harms actual good technology being built. Even the Blender team managed to drop the “submit a patch” attitude and actually turn one of the most convoluted pieces of creative software ever made into the defacto for the next generation through actually listening and responding to users. Think of the good that could have been done in the software world if a different team with an attitude of building for their users had decided to build a free image editor 27 years ago.