My 2 cents: I have seen a lot of instance where it is said - GIMP is no good when compared to photoshop ; There is no alternative for Dreamweaver ..etc etc. This make make a negative impact on newbies ;as they will take these ideas for granted and never try to use a alternative - The simple reason they will quote is "Person X who already use GNU says GIMP is inferior to Photoshop " .
But as proponents of GNU ;we must always encourage people to GIMP( I am sure there are many things in GIMP (or for that any GNU s/w ) that lay unexplored simply because no one try to use it ). This creates an environment where people tend to fix their paths themselves ; create new features for softwares themselves when they find it is necessary . I have heard somewhere that RMS started it all when he needed a printer to work without the proprietary driver from the manufacturer . That must be the spirit ! . I am not a web dev or a Gimp power user .But i have used GNU exclusively in my PC when its sound driver wouldnt work . I could simply have used Windows with sound . But that sacrifice I guess was necessary to uphold an idea that I believed in . Right now my laptop runs video very slowly ( and I am a movie buff) ; because of some driver problems with the poulsbo chipset i have in Lucid Lynx . But i dont care ........and I think thats the spirit. RMS speech's always have a lot of hatred towards Windows/MS/Bill . While It may seem useless if we think in one point of view ; I think the idea he has employed is blind following for an ideology through some tricks like hatred for an opponent . I dont think he is a fool ! .rather he is smarter than all of us. Same is the case with FSF propaganda like windows 7 sins etc :) . So to put it short - When you say - "Think of Adobe Dreeamweaver as an example. As far as I know there are no substitute for that in the free or opensource section, not even near to that" - you are not fit for being a part of this community as you are using GNU / Free Software just for your selfishness and you may never have had true respect and allegiance to a community /a brotherhood that creates Software just for the fun of it :) On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Dinkar Mohana Pai <[email protected]> wrote: > Now that is what I call a nice and sensible post in the flood of emails in > ILUG list recently. > > Wondering why people can't share a lighter moment ! > > I know Madhu for the last 8 years. We both were active members of the LUG. > He is working in a non-tech field but he know a lot more than what these new > opensource lovers ! > > Regarding the last series, the 'FREE' confused me as well even though I am > not new to the Free Softwares, Free Beer and Free Speech ;) > > And generally - there are a lot of factors why people can't shift into > opensource completely ditching MS products all of a sudden. Forcing them to > use only opensource or asking them to hate MS will not help the community. > That is not the way. Don't shoot people if they are using Windows. Let them > use opensource applications first, let them get familiar with opensource > alternatives, then we can talk about OS shift. > > I am sending this email from a paid and propritary OS that I use for > development. I have my own reasons why I can't use Linux (or GNU/Linux or > whatever! ) as my primary OS right now. At the same time, I am using a lot > of (more than 10 softwares on a daily use) opensource alternatives, very > happily. > > Think of Adobe Dreeamweaver as an example. As far as I know there are no > substitute for that in the free or opensource section, not even near to > that. By alternative I meant, all the functionalities and ease of use for a > developer. Correct me if I am wrong. There are fields where opensource has > lot of better alternatives, but there are fields where opensource lags > behind too. That is a fact which we can't ignore. > > Take it easy, lil bit of humor or or going lil offtopic never hurt :) > > Best Regards > Din. > > > > On 02-Jul-10, at 11:19 PM, Suresh Balasubramanian wrote: > > Lot of "hate" mails persuaded me to send this quote (and the pic :)) >> >> "There are extremists in the free software world, but that's >> one major reason why I don't call what I do 'free software' any more. I >> don't want to be associated with the people for whom it's about >> exclusion and hatred." - Linus >> >> Hope this spreads some light! >> We need more and more people adopting free/open/"whatever" software. >> That's it! >> >> -- >> Regards, >> SURESH BALASUBRAMANIAN >> <linus.jpg>_______________________________________________ >> Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List >> http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ >> http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org >> #[email protected] >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List > http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ > http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org > #[email protected] > -- Anoop P Alias (PGP Key ID : 0x014F9953) GNU system administrator http://GnuSys.net
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