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Photoshop Express Terms of Use Cause Stir, Will Be Revised
Earlier this week, we discussed Adobe's beta launch of Photoshop Express, a free, online version of the popular image editing software. However, as a number of readers pointed out, the terms of use included language which granted Adobe a wide range of rights to any photos that were made available on the site. Now, after receiving a great deal of feedback from potential users, Adobe has stated their intent to rewrite the terms of use, as Ars Technica reports. David Morgenstern of ZDNet also notes the impending change, and briefly discusses the privacy and ownership concerns involved with content you post online.
who's to say they won't change it back again at some point in the future? This really highlights all the problems with using someone else's equipment to host and processes personal data files.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
Certainly Photoshop has a few remaining strengths over the GIMP
Regardless of the technical merits, the reality is that Photoshop has the acceptance of professionals everywhere, and that kind of inertia will be hard to overcome even if GIMP ultimately exceeds Photoshop in capability and usability. "Free" means little to people that use something as a business tool that can be written off their taxes, and which they must trust to get the job done. That said, Photoshop is hardly perfect, Adobe is an obnoxious company, and I sincerely hope that the GIMP makes it out of amateur status and truly does go head-to-head with Adobe's stuff. Sooner or later it will, I think.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
I'm starting to wonder if "someone at Adobe" really thought this was a bad policy? Or, is this a case where Adobe tried to sneak one past the public and got busted (because someone did the unthinkable and actually read the EULA)? You'll have to excuse my cynicism: dealing with the EULA-based trickery of another particular software company (whose name I won't bother mentioning) is precisely what drove my ass to FOSS in the first place. Sure it's free as in beer, but the "free as in speech" part is more important than people will ever give credit for, and situations like TFA are a perfect illustration of this.
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"All it really needs" is to send all of its devs over to GTK for a month and make that not suck, or cut it altogether and use a decent widget library.
GIMP sure takes a beating for being unfriendly. I disagree with that label, though. I think GIMP is easy to use and does a great job. Plus it is free. It's a very capable and easy to use graphics editor.
I think the real issue is GIMPs interface is just different. It looks a lot like PaintShopPro at least used to. I was a PaintShopPro user for some time and switching to GIMP was easy.
I like the GIMP. Anyone interested in GIMP ought to just download it and try it out for themselves and see what they think. Give it some time. It always takes a while to learn a different interface. I think people would be pleasantly surprised if they would just try GIMP for a while instead of being turned off that its interface isn't the same as Photoshop's.
Well, they might start by calling it something other than GIMP....
Which of the more common definitions do you think people associate with this fine product?
Gimp: lameness: disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet
Gimp: is a usually derogatory term used to refer to a (male or female) sexual submissive person, typically dressed in black leather (or rubber), often in a gimp suit, and wearing a bondage hood or mask of the same material. ...
Courtesy of http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3A+gimpYour average Joe isn't going to know that it means GNU Image Manipulation Program.
For God sake, the most common definition implies that it is crippled! I haven't used the GIMP much, my company bought a copy of Photoshop just for little ol' me. So to me it makes no difference if the GIMP is free or not, setting aside its ridiculous name, I didn't have to pay for Photoshop anyway.
It IS unfriendly. Why should we give ourselves hassle with headaches when we can just do what we always do, download a copy of Lightroom and Photoshop CS.
GIMP? Please, come back to me when they pull their arses from their heads. All "Its just different" bullshit you shout won't change a thing.
Gimp is udder cows balls until they get their act together and get a good Useability story. Meanwhile, stay in your mamma's basement.
7. Change the name.
8. Offer a UI skin that is more like ps.
I don't use GIMP on the Mac for two reasons.
That said, I use and am satisfied with GIMP on Linux, simply because it's not that bad and there's no real alternative.
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It doesn't seem clear to me at all that you can't use the Express VC++ to write, compile, or distribute open-source applications.
Open source, in my understanding, merely requires that you distribute your source such that someone can recompile it. It does not require you to distribute the compiler with it. Nor does it require that the compiler be open source.
Thus, if your code can compile with Cygwin and VC++, but you distribute the copy you created with VC++, I don't see what the issue would be. Users who want to compile it themselves, and/or modify your code to do something else would have no problems doing so, assuming they had a compiler that works for the code in question. It does not appear to me to be any different than writing code using the Win32 API directly - that can be OSS, too, so why not something compiled with VC++? I didn't distribute the code to the Win32 API, nor to the C runtime library(ies).
I agree that the name is crucial. The GIMP is never going to gain mainstream acceptance for as long as it has a name that some people might actually find offensive. GIMP developers: I'm sorry, it's not cute. Even if it wasn't offensive, it says horrible things about your software's abilities. Per the New Oxford American Dictionary:
a physically handicapped or lame person.
a limp.
a feeble or contemptible person.
Performance and functionality issues aside, I can't even bring it up in any kind of social setting without first having to apologize for the name.
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Yeap, they toned down the aggression a little to make it a bit easier for everyone to swallow. Eventually they get the inch they want and the pot rises a few degrees.
I hate printers.