Re: This FOSS Thang :-)

On 3/31/24 7:13 AM, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

-hh wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
 

On 3/29/24 8:24 PM, DFS wrote:

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Your original quote:
"Specifically, they whine about how Photoshop costs £600 and is a
waste, while claiming that the same capabilities can be accomplished
for free."
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I unintentionally made it sound like you felt that way about Photoshop,
when you were just recapping the position of the "advocates":

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Ah, got it; no worries.
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The irony is that you wrote that back in Aug 2012, yet chrisv is still
trying to dry-hump it...while never actually properly addressing the

             ======== (what -hh is doing to DFS)

Not at all, because I had questioned where chrisv's quote came from. DFS made good by saying that it was theirs and that they had unintentionally had misstated and changed my comments' tone, which I've accepted.
In then checking back to its original post, I found that chrisv was still clinging onto a misstatement that was made twelve years ago.

original point.
>

Creepy Chris Ahlstrom: "Yeah, everyone who wants to manipulate images
needs to pay $600 for Photoshop and then use only a 16th of its
functionality.  <rolls eyes>"

 A perfectly valid point. Not whining.

Pretty much, but it still illustrates how there's such a focus on the product's cost in one's value statement.

 

<bs brevsnip>

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That's 4 for 4 whining on money, yet we're somehow supposed to believe
that no Linux fanboy considers cost a factor on Linux 'superiority';
seems more that they know of their wallet's personal inadequacies!  /s

 -hh raising a straw man just to knock it down. :-D
 Hint: *everyone* factors cost into what they decide to purchase, or not.

Sure, but to know the correct price is showing that one is probably desirous of the product, but can't personally rationalize buying it. The same phenomenon happens with nice cars, trips, houses, etc.

At my job they would get you a license for Photoshop or Adobe Pro if you asked
for it and had a business.

Pretty much the same; in earlier years, we had to pay for it out of our local IT budget, which resulted in a lot of pirating. I helped keep one manager above board by telling them how many additional licenses of XYZ we should buy to stay clean, which they'd try to fulfill at the end of each budget year with whatever surplus "use or lose" dollars we had.

I saved them some money using GIMP, which runs
fine (albeit slowly) on Windows.
 

The old sbd "70,000x better!" thread showed how using cheap tools for enterprise which results in lower productivity is a false economy.
-hh