Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1

On Sat, 11 Jan 2025 12:06:05 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 10/01/2025 22:15, rbowman wrote:

On Fri, 10 Jan 2025 07:27:06 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
 

The natural tendency in a free market is that the best technology
rises to the top, becomes ubiquitous, and everybody uses it. Diversity
in technology is not desirable,. Diversity in its application is,
somewhat.

 
Like natural selection I would say an adequate technology rises to the
top, not always the best.

 
Well it depends on what 'best' applies to.
 
Take VHS - technically inferior to Betamax but best marketed.

I had that in mind -- along with the 8088 processors and MSDOS. IBM had
used the 8085 in the System 23 so were familiar with Intel and wanted to
use readily available and inexpensive 8-bit peripherals in a product they
didn't really believe in. And here we are.