Re: [Gimp-user] Save Export Complaints

[Stephen Allen <marathon durandal gmail com>]

On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 04:35:06PM +0200, maderios wrote:
> Print shops ask for png, jpeg or tiff, not psd

Maybe your consumer quick printer, not offset print shops that do
professional work. They want usually, PDF and/or PSD. PSD not being
their first choice.
 
> > Yep, and that's their right... why are you pushing so hard to keep them with a software that is not 
> > targeting them as it's core demographic? Especially when it's not a commercial project where anyone makes 
> > money from?
>
> Strange and interesting point of view... Your message to these
> people is "go out". Welcome in the Happy World of Free Software...
> Happily, you're not representative. Free Software philosophy is
> opening, not closing.
> About GNU/Linux philosophy
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar
> I hope that gimp does not become a cathedral

You're quite out of your depth of knowledge. You seem to think you have
some sort of right to get what you want. You don't, OSS/FOSS doesn't
work like that, unless you're the one developing. FOSS development isn't
a democracy.