MacGimp Reviewed, Available For Easy Download

Posted by timothy on Tuesday November 11, 2003 @12:23PM from the beats-photoshop-on-price dept.

Kelly McNeill writes "Now that a native X Window system (X11) comes as standard equipment on OS X Panther, osViews' Kelly McNeill thought that now might be the right time to review the latest (stable) version of of the GNU Image Manipulation Program -- version 1.2.5. Gimp reviews in the past have typically either been written from a non-technical perspective -- authored by graphic artists or by software developers -- having little understanding of the needs of graphic designers. Kelly McNeill is a self-proclaimed tech geek and a working graphic artist, which makes the review all the more interesting." And Durin_Deathless writes "A new open source company, Archei LLC , is sponsoring free downloads of MacGIMP. You can download here(1)(officially) or here(2) (no personal info needed). You could also use Fink to get GIMP, but if GIMP is all want, here you go."

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Buying GPL Software by cubal · 2003-11-11 14:19 · Score: 0, Redundant

Companies that sell GPL software make me think - why has the community not gotten together to bypass this sort of profit mongering?

All it would take would be one person to buy it, get the source as macgimp has it (i.e. patched for comp. on Mac OS X), build it themselves then stick it on gimp.org or planetmirror.com or similar... in fact, the community could pool together say 50 people at $1 each, and we have a free (as in speech) version of macgimp :)

That make any sense?