well, you're the one who mentioned money. being somewhat older now i would also very much note the need for a good circle of friends and community, and a committed life's partner etc for when you can't take care of yourself (or perhaps make any money). believe it or not it's a real possibility. I can't believe looking back how many of my friends never made it past 30. but here was the actual page that made me stop and think about typekit: http://www.briangardner.com/typekit-fonts/ and this was a good article: http://www.briangardner.com/minimalist-design/ have a good day. dan
On 12/16/12, Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoud...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Daniel Smith wrote: >> Alexandre, >> well, design has never really been considered a high paid occupation >> now, has it? > > By whom? :) Besides, a lot depends on lifestyle. Living frugally on > $60K vs. living lavishly on $120K turns out to be pretty much the same > thing or even better. > > The point I'm trying to make is that in the long run "whatever works > best" is still the best approach. We can argue about licenses and > "evil" vendors all we like, but once you do paid projects and treat > this job seriously, justifying software expenses can be not such a big > deal. Similarly, it's quite OK for people to buy Apple hardware if > they have a project to pay the expense off nicely. > > This is really about looking at things through investment lens. > >> Like I said before, to view open source as if it's all white knights >> is a misnomer. > > Indeed :) > > Alexandre Prokoudine > http://libregraphicsworld.org > _______________________________________________ > gimp-user-list mailing list > gimp-user-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list > _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
