Re: [Gimp-developer] Fw: suggestion for new versions of GIMP

[Nils Philippsen <nils tiptoe de>]

On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 12:32 +0100, Marco Ciampa wrote:
> See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy#Mike_Gancarz:_The_UNIX_Philosophy
> 
> And think about this: it is the sole 40 years old OS working (well) out there.
> There should be a reason.

TBH, Unix is only a family of operating systems, not even with the
oldest heritage, or the best compatibility. Take IBM OS/360...z/OS where
you can still run programs from the mid-60s on a mainframe of today,
both older and more compatible. Not that it would be of any use to a
casual user of image manipulation software ;-).

Nils
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