Dnia wtorek, 4 kwietnia 2006 18:41, pixelnate napisa?: > OSS tools are certain to woo users away from the world of proprietary > software and vendor lock-in. That is why they are so scared of linux, > et. al. The reason why I got involved in this discussion was because I > see so many people screaming that all of the open source apps everywhere > are always the best tools for every job, and the fact of the matter is, > that is simply not the case.
You're right here - and I think nobody here thinks that that if you can't do something in OSS apps you must live with it - I always use the best tool to do my job (as long as I can afford it...). But the overall mentatlity is that one must use *shop/*studio for thing X, just because it's commercial and "industry standard" not acknowledging that there are other tools that also get the job done (like buying 6000 MS Office Pro licenses when 90% of users just use Word for really simple files, 8% Excel and 2% other apps from the package - true story :/) Also note that in the OSS world feedback is greatly appreciated, because most of the projects are rather young when compared to the commercial ones (note that Photoshop's history is going back to the year 1990!). Regarding the article - university is there to teach you the thing you need to know about your job, not the tools - it's up to anyones will to choose the right tools for him - for example I can't get used to PS interface, I'm still searching for things I've used before and it's badly designed from my point of view (once again: only mine, 99% of the users can like it). If someone's teaching graphic design he should also teach other apps - and I mean teach and not just show that they exist. If anyone thinks that one should bring knowledge of PS from school he's wrong - it doesn't bring them real life experience anyway, work conditions are so different from school ones that it's easier for me to learn Japanese ;) Oh, I forgot to mention it - if you miss something in an app post a bug/feature request, help write some code or give some testcases (I've seen you are willing to provide one example - that's good) - without feedback we can't improve, but with feedback I mean something serious not some random bashing like other people do... -- ?ukasz [DeeJay1] Jerna? P.S. If you see some trademarks above they are of course registered by the proper owners, they not used for commercial purposes, I do not endorse them, I do not work for any of those companies nor my relatives work there. P.S.S. This should keep some of their lawyers from sending me threat letters ;) -------------- n?chster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit Bin?rdaten wurde abgetrennt... Dateiname : nicht verf?gbar Dateityp : application/pgp-signature Dateigr??e : 191 bytes Beschreibung: nicht verf?gbar URL : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20060404/10adf640/attachment.pgp
