Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1

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.
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If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.
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