[oclug]For the Mac / Linux fans

[Milan Budimirovic]

On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 14:28, gabriel wrote:
> On January 11, 2003 07:18 pm, Milan Budimirovic wrote:
> > It's hard to tell what sort of threat Apple poses to Linux and free
> > software. Fortunately we are in the era of the sub-$700 PC, and it's
> > very difficult at this point to see Apple expanding its market, just
> > from a bang-for-the-buck point of view. The same is true of software
> > like Office and Photoshop. It's hard to see  Microsoft and Adobe
> > continuing to command crown jewel prices for these things when there's
> > free software that does exactly the same thing.
> 
> we're not quite there yet.  i don't care what you say, photoshop is still 
> light years ahead of gimp.  it's the main reason i'm forced to dual-boot.
> 

Well, I don't care what you say. Sentences should begin with capital
letters.

Photoshop is **not** light years ahead of the GIMP. The only thing it
has that the GIMP lacks is CMYK support, which is really only useful to
professional photographer for generating hardcopy. The vast majority of
people who use Photoshop use it for manipulating web graphics, where the
GIMP has major advantages, especially with its macro powerful languages
-- one of which is Perl. :=))