begin quoting James G. Sack (jim) as of Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 06:39:14PM -0700: > Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > > James G. Sack (jim) wrote: > .. > >> Yep, but maybe the only way to win is not to play that game, eh? I do > >> think playing do-it-their-way has got to be demotivating to creative > >> people. > > > > Define "win". Producing a functional open-source tool is a win, by > > itself. Now, is "win" converting all the Photoshop users to Gimp? > > Perhaps, perhaps not. > > I was thinking that "win" means getting to be taken seriously -- in this > case as a photo editing tool.
By whom? > Once you're taken seriously, (some) people start to listen to reviews > and testimonials and weigh tradeoffs -- which I'm envisioning as very > positive feedback to open source projects and developers. -- Some of us take very little seriously. Except Javascript. Stewart Stremler -- KPLUG-List@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
