Linked by Adam S on Tue 6th Jan 2009 02:20 UTC
Google After far too long a wait, today, Google released the first beta of Picasa for Mac. Picasa is a free, powerful photo management tool that includes many photo editing operations that the Mac native iPhoto lacks. In addition, Picasa is tightly bound to Picasa Web Albums, the first 1GB of which is also free, in contrast with Apple's MobileMe, which runs $99/year.
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FunkyELF
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2006-07-26

"All of the sudden, Google's "support" of Linux by helping to port their Windows version over to Wine seems like something to just shut Linux users up."

That is nothing new. Google has always favored Windows first, OSS second. All of the apps were available for windows first and use Wine for the linux versions. The only reason people seem to think that Google supports Linux is that it uses Linux. Google also sponsors the Summer of Code projects. In general however, Google is about as friendly as Apple or Microsoft.


Google did not develop Picasa, they bought the company that developed it. So this has nothing to do with Google. It would have been nice if they improved Wine rather than shipping their own custom version of it tho.

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mmebane Member since:
2005-07-06

Well, they did send all their changes back to mainline Wine. If Google's version works better, it's probably because they stick to a version they know works. Wine is a rapidly-changing beast, so it's not too surprising if some things break in new versions.

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