Hello, In another topic on this list, the discussion went about the name being offending and a problem when attracting new users and for the users, the name could mean that they have a hard time attracting clients. Here in Sweden, the name is just confusing for most people.
In some irrelevant way, this reminded me of a coworker who asked someone at work for a cracked copy of that image processing program that "everyone" uses! Of course, he wanted Photoshop for some reason. ( Actually, he asked for PS) Even if he knew that I successfully process about 50 images a busy week, and that I didn't use PS, he asked a guy standing next to me for that cracked PS. The punch is, I had already introduced this guy to OSS, and he knew what tools I use, so he said "You don't need PS, you would be better of downloading the Gimp!". And I just had to fill in, "and if you need som help getting started with it, just ask!". He was probably just going to crop photos anyway... Some people are avoiding The Gimp, not for the name, but because it's not PS. They want to use the same tools as the Pro's and if the Pro's jumped of a bridge, they would to. This was also mentioned in the other topic. Others are repelled by the user interface of the Gimp. And others are confusing it with being an equivalent to MsPaint. The firm I work at, does no image processing , I do it in my own firm which I run in my free time. worth mentioning is, the few clients I have are simply just interested in the result and does not care about which tools I use. Err, most of them are running OSS-systems themselves and have come across The Gimp anyway... /Kim Johansson The Comic: http://www.comicstripnetwork.com/toon/11/index.html
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