Re: [Gimp-developer] A letter of complaint

[Jay Smith <jay JaySmith com>]

On 07/23/2012 04:34 PM, gg wrote:
> On 07/23/12 19:15, Akira Tanaka wrote:
> > The times that GIMP has crashed and so many irretrievable hours of work
> > lost only fueled my rage against this program.

<snip>
> So knowing how thoroughly unreliable the tool you have chosen to use
> for the job is, you do "hours" of work without once managing a little
> cntl-s

<snip>
> So don't forget to pop back and tell us what you decide to use. I'd be
> interested in what you find and how you find it compares to Gimp.
>
> best regards and good luck.
>
> gg

Since Akira Tanaka did not bother to tell us what Gimp version is being 
used or on what operating system, there is less than nothing that 
anybody (developers or users) can learn from his rant.

Thanks to gg for pointing out that failure to save work is the _user's_ 
problem, not the program's problem.  Though I have only been using 
computer applications for about 30 years, I still have not found an 
operating system that never crashes, hardware that never dies, and only 
one or two programs that have never crashed on me (probably because I 
did not use them very much).  Everything will eventually crash.  The 
user is _always_ responsible for being prepared when the crash occurs. 
It is always a question of 'when', not a question of 'if'.

And when you (Akira Tanaka) tell us how a different program compares to 
Gimp, please don't forget to tell us how much it costs.  ;-)

Also, please be sure to use some insults and bad language so we will 
know it is really you.

J.