Quote:Original post by Tape_Worm
Well this thread is offically off the rails...
You've pretty much accused someone of pirating software.
Stop making truly retarded attempts to play advocate for someone else. I didn't say "hey you're pirate" to anyone here.
I did make it clear however that , matter of fact, I DO interpret his points as yet another damn "gimp vs pirated photoshop comparison". If that is not the case, he can very well tell it isn't and he has some other software in mind than photoshop (when telling how default mouse behavior is "broken" etc.)
In gimp vs photoshop rant, there is at least some appreciation for fact that photoshop is 699$ and is made by fulltime developers (over what, two decades+ now?) and gimp is free made in spare time with consequently a lot less man-years of development.
While in gimp vs pirated photoshop rant, there is none, and developers get called crappy for gimp's inferiority comparing to photoshop.
That is the difference.
If you insist on making a clear point that he is being accused of piracy and want to make me elaborate as on why i did suggest such possibility... then its you who are screaming that he is (accused of) piracy.
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Furthermore you've essentially accused the majority of people who use photoshop to be a pirate. I find that particularly insulting.
results of a poll : 60% of photographers polled did admit piracy.
Statistics from some game developers whom think that piracy is no big deal : 92% (that is for game, of course, but nonetheless)
Businesses don't pirate software at all, of course, so there is still a lot of units sold even with piracy.
I'm no policeman, and no judge, and this is no trial. This is just me making clear that I interpret his rant about gimp as comparison with (pirated)photoshop, by default, given that it is the most probable. Unless shown otherwise (edit: and you, unasked for advocate, getting into and blowing it out of proportions).
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If he dislikes GIMP or its developers, then that's his perogative and it's yours to counter those claims. But you should at least have had the balls to counter his claims without using the cheap (and very weak) argument of piracy.
Not reference was made to source code of the gimp or software architecture, so the claim [gimp programmers are crappy] is entirely empty.
edit: also. Funny how you have no problem with someone calling people not even present in this thread "crappy programmers", while having a lot of problems with me mildly accusing someone who is present here and could himself reply "no i'm not actually comparing gimp to photoshop, i have program XYZ in mind".
[Edited by - Dmytry on March 10, 2009 4:15:35 AM]
