Addressing a new danger that the GIMP gets replaced by Mono, by default
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Anybody up to writing good directory software?
Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David JonathanSince the very beginning, directories (of any kind) have had a very central role in the internet. (I have recently grown fond of Free Web Directory. Even Slashdot can be considered a directory: a collection of great news and invaluable user-generated comments. As far as software is concerned, doing a quick search on Google about software directories will return the free (as in freedom) software directories like Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat and so on, followed by shareware and freeware sites such as FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and All Freeware (great if you're looking for shareware and freeware, but definitely less comprehensive than their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
Is better education the key to finding better software?
Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward RusselI read David Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software? the other day, which got me thinking about software directories in general. As David mentioned, many of the software directories one finds when doing a quick google search are free as in beer, not as in freedom. But what interests me is the software directories that already exist, providing a combination of both free as in beer software, and open source software. Sites such as Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download don't advertise themselves as providing free as in liberty software, but each of them have a good selection of open source software available... if you know where to look.
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Mr. Psychopath
2 years 48 weeks 13 hours 58 min ago
Seriously?!
While I can understand BN's hatred of Mono, really?! Really?! Take a good, long step backwards and think about it. F-Spot is, at best, a halfway-decent photo management app. To "replace" Gimp, it would require compatibility to GIMP's brushes, Adobe Photoshop brushes, nearly all of GIMP's plugins and font rendering system, scaling, etc.
The article then trails off into such sensationalist venues as "This is a Microsoft plot, and the danger of Mono is VERY REAL!"
First off, Mono has the official blessing of RMS. Although he's warned against making huge projects dependent on it, he says it's okay to use it since it's a Free Software implementation of .NET, GNU tried to do something similar a few years back with DotGNU.
This is nothing more than some guy that likes Microsoft saying "Hey, you ought to do a mono image editor!", which will likely be voted down anyways because his proposal says that F-Spot should be the chosen application of choice. This is, of course, a retarded idea. Not because Mono is "inherently evil" as advertised by BN, but because...a photo collection manager doubling as an image manager? That's the dumbest thing I've read all day.
arito
2 years 48 weeks 9 hours 17 min ago
Yes, seriously
From the Ubuntu Desktop Team meating of 9.6.2009:
"rickspencer3 proposes pulling the gimp from the CD:"
"F-Spot has key features, like crop and red-eye removal "
(Rick Spencer was the chair of the meeting)