Scribus Cracks the Big Leagues in Print

An anonymous reader writes "In an interview on O'Reilly, The Scribus Team, who recently released Scribus 1.2 , reveal the first commercial adoptions of Scribus, GIMP, Inkscape, and Linux by commercial newspapers. Who said Linux could not make it in the print world ?"

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And you suck ass.

[Seraphim_72]

Man, I dont get it, I really don't

and a great solution if I weren't stealing Illustrator (i.e. if I were running a design shop and I needed to make sure all my licenses were legit)

one more

I just never got to like Gimp. It's significantly gotten better over the years but it still seems like a poor substitute for photoshop

So, you can steal great software, and it is better than OSS - and if you stole the one (pardon! infringed) I will bet your photoshop licence aint "legit" either. Yet you can gripe that you can't be Open Source cuz it isn't as good. I am stunned. How about I forward your email and website to Adobe and we see what thier lawyers think of your post? OS doesn't fit you, and OS doesn't WANT your kind. Go get your hacks, and stay on MS, your time is coming.

Re:Drawing software

[Kell_pt]

I probably shouldn't be replying to anonymous cowards, but it's stronger then me.
You see, I'm not bitching. I'm not even complaining, I'm merely reporting my experience.
It's funny how developers of open source projects will usually listen to complaints and requests, whereas some users, as if attempting to defend "something", will embark in (and bark about) speech of "if you don't like it don't use it". That's stupid and immature. The only way OSS progresses is by people actually getting to use it, and I'll serve the process best by stating my troubles with the software, instead of just showing everyone how I'm not the regular user and am able to recompile it or patch. Most people around here are, like me, capable of altering a piece of software for their own needs. But would you spend that much time learning to know all those programs you use but that don't quite cut it? It only makes sense actually reporting problems (even as minor as gui ones), so that people with more knowledge can address it. That's cooperation, through constructive criticism.

I could go on talking about how posts like this are annoying and trollish, but hei, this is slashdot, and it's unlikely that anyone will even read this other than to flame. :) At least it serves the purpose of allowing me to let it out.
As for not having tried the latest GIMP releases, I did recently, and yes, there is a menu on top - I was merely stating the reasons that lead me to having found a solution elsewhere. I still find annoying the pletora of windows it launches instead of a MDI, but that is MY opinion, my feelings, just that. If you can't adapt to those, `then don't* read. :p