Hi,
On 10/14/07, Kamaleshwar Morjal [कमलेश्वर मोरजाल]
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> Yep. Lets accept the facts. Actually what i wrote in an earlier post
> in this thread was that Inkscape is _comparable_ to Illustrator and not
> _equivalent_. I believe there's a difference. Also, I believe unless there's
> a business motive driving the development of this software, it might
> never reach a level where it can be called _equivalent_ to the CSS
> which are today used by the industry at large.
Did you go to Freed.in, that nice FOSS conference in Delhi
which happened like few weeks back? Did you attend Niyam Bhushan's
talk on design et al? If not, I can understand why you saying such
things. Next time you get a chance do attend Niyam's talk. ( search
on the internet about Niyam btw if you are interested in graphic
design, digital sound, digital video, and more, based around GnuLinux
tools )
> And by the way, those who *hate* CSS so much that they feel
> enraged at the mere mention of it should reconsider! It will take
> considerable time and effort for an OSS to at least reach the level
> of quality thats delivered by Adobe and Autodesk! Afterall, there are
Who said anything about hate? Its a strong word. I don't
hate it at all. I love FOSS more, thats all. As an user I like more,
as a developer I like it even more.
> people who pay amounts of the order of thousands of dollars for a
> single software license to these companies. That proves their efficacy.
People pay tons of dollars for Windows even, so? I found
myself at distress and was almost depressed using Windows Vista. The
commandline still sucks for example, it sucks since Window Last
Century. Don't tell me CLI is of no use for Vista's target audience.
What if I want to develop on Windows for some reason? I don't even get
a decent dev platform for my moneys worth. And no I don't want use
Visual Studio
> And before further comments on these companies I would request
> you to go to their websites and check out their news releases,
> company's history, and the efficacy of their software.
Ummm? FOSS applications don't have websites? News?
Releases? I thought we do in most projects.
> Nevertheless, hating a CSS vendor or a CSS, for that matter,
> won't serve our purpose; contributing to the OSS development
> to the level they do, might!!
I contribute, do you? And I don't hate closed source software.
Cheers!
Pradeepto
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