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> he downloaded an open-source knockoff Reading this snapped me out of my Gell-Mann amnesia.

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• emmelaich 4y ago
  Gimp eh? Well we're not going to put that in the article. We're serious people.
  • josephcsible 4y ago
    I would have been fine with not mentioning GIMP had they said "an open-source alternative" or something. It's the fact that they called it a "knockoff" that made me realize they have no idea what they're talking about.
    • rvz 4y ago
      This is exactly how non-techies see 'free' programs 'competing' against the big names like Photoshop. They don't care, and why should they? They're so much used to Photoshop the name has become a verb, and just want to get things done. It is not the end of the world that GIMP is being compared to as a Photoshop "knockoff". Many would also agree that to get users to even consider or migrate to using GIMP, it would need to look more like Photoshop and be compatible with it.
    • pbhjpbhj 4y ago
      Hmm, back before there was a single-window version of The GIMP, IIRC (that's a big if), there was a version styled to be as close to Photoshop as possible; I never used it. Calling that a "knock-off" is close to the truth without getting into the protracted details of Linux distro UIs.
  • denton-scratch 4y ago
    Might have been Paintshop Pro (which wasn't ever open source, but that could just be a sloppy rendition of "shareware").