Re: OT Writing an Article about F-Spot

[Sven Utcke <sven utcke gmx de>]

> > I'll go ahead with the questions:
> > 1.) Why and when was F-Spot created ?
>
> When is simple enough; the first code repo tag was created on @
> 2003-11-08 06:52:57 (GMT)

Although it is of course possible that some of the code might have
existed before, and that this is simply the date some (new?) version
control paradigm was used.

> >  Was it the first FOSS photo management application ?
>
> No clue, I *VERY* much doubt it.  I'd wager the "first FOSS photo
> management application" is long forgotten, and was probably circa
> the 1980s.  This is not a new category of applications.

Wikipedia claims:

  The first digital camera that was actually marketed commercially was
  sold in December of 1989 in Japan, the DS-X by Fuji

So before that, and probably for some years after, there would not
have been much need for a "photo management application".  Even xv
only dates back to the early 1990s.  And that's an early image viewer
and sort of rather crude editor, with hardly any decent management
functionality. 

Sven
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