A Gimp In Photoshop's Clothing

comforteagle writes "Scott Moschella, from Attack of the Show!, set out to make The Gimp a little friendlier with a simple UI make-over, creating GimpShop. Despite an outcry from some developers, users have picked it up with passion. Howard Wen has interviewed Scott about why he did this. From the interview: 'I've always thought that GIMP was just as powerful as Photoshop. My way of proving it was to make GIMP work as close to Photoshop as I possibly could, given my limited programming experience.' As more Windows/Mac users discover powerful open source applications are they bound (slashdot disc.) to make more discoveries of this kind?" Update: 09/16 18:48 GMT by Z : Some users have pointed out this is basically an update to a previous discussion we've had. Link added for the sake of completeness.

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[querencia]

http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/0 3/31/231227

Re:Changes overdue.

[Otter]

The major precedent is the Apple versus Microsoft look 'n' feel lawsuit, which found that copying a competing interface is legal. I'm sure that Adobe's lawyers could still make Scott Moschella's life unpleasant, but he'd at least be in a strong position. The "GimpShop" name, on the other hand, is pure and simple infringement.

Re:Changes overdue.

[mindhaze]

Yeah, I'm confident the Paint^H^H^H^H^HPhotoShop authors are going to be pissed. :)