Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 1st Oct 2008 22:28 UTC
The GIMP Project has released GIMP 2.6.0. Among some UI-based changes and additional fixes, it comes the long promised integration of the GEGL library. The promise of 16 bit per-pixel non-destructive editing goes back to 2002, but it's at last here. This means that GIMP is now ready for prosumer (and in some cases even professional) photographer's usage, and this can only be big news and a big win for the F/OSS movement. GEGL will also help in future releases with proper support of CMYK. UPDATE: I guess things are not as good as the release notes want us to think. GEGL was turned "on" in the Color menu as per instructions, but I still got a no-support message for high depth TIFF pictures. If GIMP can't read existing 16bpp pictures, the feature I earlier gave them so much credit for, is useless.
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Member since:2006-05-18
It's not that SOME people do not care, it's that MOST people don't care. And those who DO care know what GIMP is and what the original poster wanted to say.
He did not want to undermine GIMP or free (as in speech) software, in fact he was praising it.
Also I'm sick of people acusing other people of lying. A lie is a "a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive". In my world making someone a liar is an insult.
I don't understand what is your motivation to insult people you don't know over the difference between freeware and free software.
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2006-05-18
This may come as a shock to you but regular users couldn't care less about software freedom especially when the product is not very good.
Most would pay or risk pirating a commercial product rather than using something that kind of meets their needs.
Making this type of observations makes you look like a fanatic.
As for GIMP, I'm really glad that they started to change the UI. Now if they only changed the name, too.
Edited 2008-10-02 07:39 UTC