Sparrow's acquisition highlights the dangers of closed source
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 21st Jul 2012 23:06 UTC
In the News Okay, so this is entirely new to me. Sparrow is was an email client for Mac OS X and iOS (and Windows), which brought a decent Gmail experience to these platforms - as opposed to Apple's own not-so-good Gmail support and Google's Gmail iOS application which, well, is just a webpage. Google has now acquired Sparrow, and basically all hell has broken loose, to the point of Rian van der Merwe writing that 'we' lost "faith in a philosophy that we thought was a sustainable way to ensure a healthy future for independent software development, where most innovation happens".
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lucas_maximus
Member since:
2009-08-18

So it isn't FUD


Yes it is

Considering you last argument Logic Fail is a bit rich. However, I link an article from The European Committee for Interoperable Systems www.ecis.eu/documents/Finalversion_Consumerchoicepaper.pdf "Microsoft
A History of Anticompetitive Behavior and Consumer Harm"
I think it covers what Nth Man is saying and you may find it interesting - I don't think logic fail is an appropriate response.


One ruling does not cover the whole industry.

Please try to be less offensive no doubt the users of GIMP have good reasons to use the this well considered software, reasons that you may not understand.


No, I have worked for one of the largest gambling companies in the UK, the 5th largest charity in the UK, and a two bit web shop. Everyone used Adobe tools ... end of story. It is silly not to use them, compared to GIMP that has a 1.5 man team.

The feature disparity between photoshop and gimp is unreal.

You might want to see some of the stuff that CS 5.5 does (not even the newest version), it makes GIMP look like Paint.NET.

Absolutely true and there is an awful lot of scumware too and this doesn't seem to affect Opensource s much as some proprietary operating systems.


It doesn't affect open-source operating systems because they have less than 1% usage on desktops. Android has a lot of crap and that is open source ... th reason being it is popular.

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Gone fishing Member since:
2006-02-22

Yes it is


Clearly you have no grasp of logic.

One ruling does not cover the whole industry.


The European Committee for Interoperable Systems
A History of Anticompetitive Behavior and Consumer Harm. Please note the word in bold. Obviously this applies to Microsoft (one dominant player) not the industry as a whole, some companies behave more ethically.

I have worked for one of the largest gambling companies in the UK

I'm pleased for you - however, it doesn't seem to have occurred to you that some users may not need all the features of Photoshop and may prefer to use the GIMP.

It doesn't affect open-source operating systems because they have less than 1% usage on desktops


Now this is speculation

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lucas_maximus Member since:
2009-08-18

Clearly you have no grasp of logic.


Whatever.

The European Committee for Interoperable Systems
A History of Anticompetitive Behavior and Consumer Harm. Please note the word in bold. Obviously this applies to Microsoft (one dominant player) not the industry as a whole, some companies behave more ethically.


The subject was about an Email application on the bloody iPhone FFS. The topic was changed to Microsoft because you like the beat the drum about it constantly.

I'm pleased for you - however, it doesn't seem to have occurred to you that some users may not need all the features of Photoshop and may prefer to use the GIMP.


We were quite clearly talking about professionals, not someone that has to do a bit a little bit image manipulation and might require something better than paint.net

Now this is speculation


The desktop *nix user base that isn't OSX has been about 1-2% for the last 10 years. There were more downloads of Windows 7 Beta than the whole ubuntu install base (the Distro which is always ranked within the top 10).

I am sure you will continue to deny it, but if you don't want to face reality that is your problem not mine.

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marcus0263 Member since:
2007-06-02



No, I have worked for one of the largest gambling companies in the UK, the 5th largest charity in the UK, and a two bit web shop. Everyone used Adobe tools ... end of story. It is silly not to use them, compared to GIMP that has a 1.5 man team.

The feature disparity between photoshop and gimp is unreal.

You might want to see some of the stuff that CS 5.5 does (not even the newest version), it makes GIMP look like Paint.NET.


You know I've been in the Computer industry for close to 20 years, most all in Dev houses and no not Mom and Pop operations. You use the best tool to fit your needs, most of the most brilliant developers I've seen use some pretty basic text editors to do their job.

I've been reading your comments you call anyone that doesn't use you tools fools. So a good analogy would be that you would call someone working at Taco Bell "assembling" pre prepared food a Chef and one who cooks from scratch a fool that doesn't know what they're doing? .... lol .....

Bottom line is one uses the best tools that "work" for them.

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