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:2005-07-24
You either did not read or did not understand my post.
When my dog is white and you come to me and say "your dog is black", it does not matter what your motivation is. You may be joking, you may be blind, you may be a chronic liar. But you would certainly be wrong. When I say "my dog is not black, my dog is white" and you say "but nobody knows your dog - there are six billion people on earth and they do not care about your dog! And in fact I am a good person with good intentions because people prefer black dogs these days, so I'm just helping to make your dog more popular!", you would certainly be right that most people don't know my dog and don't care. You might even be right about people's preferences. But, you would still be wrong about my dog's colour - even if the world did not care about my dog and preferred black dogs, my dog would not suddenly turn black.
Now, the original poster knows that GIMP is not freeware, but chooses to call it freeware, because some people do not care about the difference. Again, a lie is a lie. A person who knowingly spreads wrong information is called a liar. That's not an insult, that's an accurate description. The fact that you take it as an offense is your problem, not mine. Truth is truth, I don't take it personally. I am right, you are not and that's all there is to it.
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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.