Re: [Gimp-user] Save Export Complaints

[maderios <maderios gmail com>]

On 09/19/2012 05:44 PM, Stephen Allen wrote:
> 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.

I just think that every user can contribute to the development not only 
for bugs but also for improvements.

Greetings
--
Maderios

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