On 07/12/2012 09:46 PM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: [...] > Opensource always has been a meritocracy, not a democracy.
Except when it's a dictatorship, i.e. Ubuntu is owned outright by Mark Shuttleworth and users saw the handwriting on the wall months before the Unity debacle surfaced, when he announced he was not making enough money off the project. Today, because they DO listen to user input and believe in the "original concept" of Ubuntu, the Mint project is eating Ubuntu's lunch by making their own version of it - such is the way of Free Software. People who really, totally can't stand the new GIMP have this option, because it's Free Software: They can band together, hire programmers, and specify what they want the GIMP to do. The user interface changes they demand really aren't that big, the project should be quite economical. What comes out the other end is a (minor, short lived) fork of the GIMP, still Free as in Freedom. If it really is all *that* great compared to the normal GIMP, market forces will speak... But personally I'm sticking with the main branch, I rely on the GIMP too much in my occupational life to go out on thin, shaky limbs. :o) Steve _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
