Speaking as someone who uses these kinds of programs mainly for drawing/painting, GIMP is useless to me I've yet to find a way to rotate/flip the viewport (not the image itself), save as/export issues as you've mentioned, no easy way to configure some necessary shortcuts (though it's been some months since I've used it, so I may be misremembering or it may have changed), the number bars for brush size, etc. More realistically, it's just more pressure to pirate! They're driving up the pressure for others to pay for Office and Photoshop.
They just assume all PC's can read all files and that yours is broken. But most of them are clueless that their PC is "fine" because someone else skirted paying hundreds of dollars for Office and other software. Not so much a problem for geeks who know of Openoffice, Gimp or the free converters online, but things get to the point where you have random computer illiterate friends expecting you to have those installed on your mother's machine to read some random forward, and think YOU are the one with the problem for not having pirated. It's free for them to send you their work in PSD format, or ppt and docx for Windows office work, so they'll do it and assume you have the reader for free on your machine. Just by the power of numbers, intentional or unknowing free-loaders *dictate* practices for everyone. If you're one of us who won't pirate, you'll find the problem. Someone like that living in today's pirate friendly world would have few reasons to bother working with others, when he can just shut up and torrent multi-thousand dollar software.ĭoes all that free work up on deviantart get made with paid copies of Photoshop, especially for broke amateurs contributing from humble third-world countries? nobody there buys personal software. We have Linux today because someone in the nineties wanted a free alternative. This hurts the number of developers who would otherwise improve Gimp out of sheer need.
If you basically have no barriers to acquiring Photoshop, then sadly there's no reason to "invest" on the less developed product, even if it is ALSO free.Īdobe and Microsoft both know that piracy tends to drive adoption out of increased eyeballs on the de-facto tools. Just skip this post if you advocate otherwise. The problem in our world is few people see piracy as a problem and make statements such as this as if Adobe's boxes were all marked "MSRP: $0" instead of $600 or $1000 for the non-student versions. In a perfect world where piracy is zero, all people who will not pay for Photoshop are forced to use GIMP and other alternatives, or just stay out of the race.
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