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5 Sep 2024 07:21:12 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Open source software is always stable  
From: nemesis
Date: 17 Oct 2009 21:27:16
Message: <4ada6ef4@news.povray.org>
Gilles Tran wrote:
> I understand that many IT folks love OSS, but that's because the OSS 
> model caters for this particular niche and does indeed provide great 
> tools for them (and toys: if you're a IT person dabbling with graphics, 
> the GIMP is good enough and you get to play with the code ; if you're a 
> graphics pro, no, not really, thanks, you'd rather pay the Adobe tax ; 
> if you're neither, some cheap proprietary entry-level photo editor with 
> an interface that's actually usable will do). Those of us who are not 
> working (full time) in IT see the problem differently.

This guy is a pro:

http://blogdodesenhador.blogspot.com/
http://lambiek.net/artists/c/couto_mozart.htm

He seems to have a passion for the Gimp and the Genius MousePen tablet, 
though.  He seems to have far more needs than simple photo editing too.


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