On Nov 30, 2007 9:10 AM, Gary Pikula wrote: > Example 1: Gimp wiki (Wilbur's wiki) This wiki uses your own software, while > the common user is used to mediawiki software.
The common user isn't. While mediawiki is quite popular indeed (mainly because of wikipedia), there is a fair number of wiki engines that are widely used (e.g. dokuwiki). And being administrator of two mediawiki installations I can tell you that mediawiki sucks in so many ways that I would be the very first person to object using it for GIMP's website. I can argue about it till I'm blue in the face, but you probably wouldn't want to see that happening in this mailing list or anywhere at all. I wouldn't, for my part :) > It is largely the same story with the gimp user group forums. Since when does GIMP has just ONE user forum? I know several ones. > Everyone is used to phpbb forums Who is that "everyone"? Also, popular != good. PhpBB has a long history of being insecure. > The average user has never used a mailing list before as well and feels > uncomfortable with them, take that into more consideration. I'd like to finally see a document that states that you are granted rights to provide such vague statements. > This has created 2 major problems. > > 1. TheGimp is no longer comparable to photoshop or corel. Totally unrelated > I recommend putting together an extremely detailed feature list of both > products You are free to start it, if you care so much about competition. From what I remember, GIMP developers are not interested in competing with anyone. You are probably missing the whole point of open source software development. Alexandre _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
