Re: This FOSS Thang :-)

On 2024-03-30, chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> wrote:

chrisv wrote:
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-hh wrote:

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I'd also like to see the original statement made, because the above
kinda looks like a misquote or misstatement:  I've never claimed that
Adobe Photoshop was an expensive waste. 

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Again, -highhorse conjures shit up that no normal person could have
thought what the issue was, at all.

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I need to correct myself.  DumFSck's quote
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'What -hh said about Photoshop - expensive, waste, Gimp does the same
for free - is exactly the written position of most if not all
"advocates" on cola.'
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does read as if -highhorse said that Photoshop was expensive and a
waste. It's poorly written, because that was not its meaning, when it
was posted. 
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-highhorse dishonestly attacked the cola advocates for, allegedly,
saying that Photoshop "is a waste", when we had not. (See sig for the
-highhorse quote.) DumFSck *lied* when he claimed that -highhorse's
claims were "exactly the written position of most if not all" the cola
advocates.
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The advocate's position on the issue was always reasonable.  Saying
that a product is a poor value propostion, or even a "waste of money"
for casual or occasional users, is cannot be honestly shortened to
the product "is a waste".
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FFS, all along he's been a Photoshop defender!  Obviously!

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The second -highhorse and DumFSck lie is their assertion that cola
advocates said that gimp had "the same" capabilities.  We didn't.
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Both of them *lied* to attack our quite-reasonable position.

The way I put it is that Photoshop is an expensive niche application. If you
need to use it, then you'll have to run Windows or a Mac. We used it in the
print shop where I worked (though I didn't, personally, because I wasn't a
graphic artist). For what "photoshopping" I do occasionally, GIMP works fine.
And I'm guessing most "regular" computer users would say the same.

It's not the fault of Linux that Adobe won't make a version of their
software for it. If you have to have Photoshop go for Windows or OSX. I
don't need or want it. And I'm sure not going to suffer by using Windows on
the off chance that I might need Photoshop once or twice every fifth year.

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