Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp is not free... that's why people prefer paid software.
08 янв. 2014 г. 11:02 пользователь FallenLegend for...@gimpusers.com написал: No, GIMP is not free Nor any open source program for that matter.It costs the time and effort our brilliant developers gift us and yes even money because their work has a lot of valueSo why we keep pretending it is really free. It's just a matter of perspective. Things that make no sense to you make a perfect sense to others, and vice versa. Why not pay them for their hard work? why we don't pay for developers to work in open source like GIMP as if it was a job?. Gimp is an will always be free but Why we not as users pay to have developers work on this proyect? Again, a matter of perspective. Also, a matter of background. Not every team is ready to do the paperwork, the coordination work etc. Not every team thinks that having community as a boss is a great idea. Not every team has developers available for full-time work. Some developers go as far as refusing to accept donations altogether. I think one day we as fans of gimp should have this option. To pay developers to work fro GIMP The future will show :) Personally, I agree with you on quite a few pointa. But at the same time I respect the team's view that centralized paid work is not a good idea at this time. Alexandre ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List address:gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp is not free... that's why people prefer paid software.
On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 08:39:12AM +0100, Marco Ciampa wrote: On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 08:02:01AM +0100, FallenLegend wrote: No, GIMP is not free Nor any open source program for that matter.It costs the time and effort our brilliant developers gift us and yes even money because their work has a lot of valueSo why we keep pretending it is really free. I stop here, there is a big misunderstanding. using the word libre instead of free helps a lot... I reckon I was too concise. I meant that that stress upon the money does not tell you the whole story. Free is about freedom. Often developers asked no money but just programming help. IMHO money (usually) just leads to diverge projects from the useful to the marketing / popular / fashion requests and that seriously hurts free projects like GIMP. There is a reason why althought so few the free developers produce such high quality software: they have no bosses. They decide on their own. This behaviour is not error free but usually produce far more efficient, better and error free code. Compare the results with so many 24h programmers Adobe Photoshop sports and how trementulsy efficients are GIMP devs. I know that GIMP devs are on average smarter than Adobe ones ;-) but that does not explain this fact. I believe freedom is smarter and the only way to keep it smart is staying away from money. You COULD introduce money but you have to do it without constrains, and IMHO this is a very difficoult thing to do. I myself have no idea on how it could be done. Please. forgive my bad english. -- Marco Ciampa L'utopia sta all'orizzonte. Mi avvicino di due passi, lei si allontana di due passi. Faccio dieci passi e l'orizzonte si allontana di dieci passi. Per quanto cammini, non la raggiungerò mai. A cosa serve l'utopia? A questo: serve a camminare. Eduardo Galeano ++ | Linux User #78271 | | FSFE fellow #364 | ++ ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List address:gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp is not free... that's why people prefer paid software.
On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 08:02:01AM +0100, FallenLegend wrote: No, GIMP is not free Nor any open source program for that matter.It costs the time and effort our brilliant developers gift us and yes even money because their work has a lot of valueSo why we keep pretending it is really free. I stop here, there is a big misunderstanding. using the word libre instead of free helps a lot... -- Marco Ciampa L'utopia sta all'orizzonte. Mi avvicino di due passi, lei si allontana di due passi. Faccio dieci passi e l'orizzonte si allontana di dieci passi. Per quanto cammini, non la raggiungerò mai. A cosa serve l'utopia? A questo: serve a camminare. Eduardo Galeano ++ | Linux User #78271 | | FSFE fellow #364 | ++ ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List address:gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
