> I believe that the best open-source software is focused on serving the
> user population before it is focused on serving commercial purposes.
And I have to respectfully disagree. I'm focused on serving
commercial purposes. Why? Because I like having food on my table and
a house to put the table in, along with a decent car (and fuel) to
drive to and from the grocery store, etc. My computers are tools to
make a living, just like a carpenter uses a hammer and saw. Yes, I
want my tools to be comfortable and easy to use. But I also expect
them to a job, and if they don't do that job the way I need, they WILL
be replaced. And in certain applications, commercial software does a
better job.
> I am an open-source advocate as even when it doesn't focus on the
> user-population the way it should (such as GNOME) if there's a great
> fuss it can be forked and the new project can focus on the larger
> user-population.
This is true. But it is also a double-edged sword. There are a
number of projects over the years that have forked, and instead of one
or two really good packages, we end up with 47 packages that almost
sorta kinda work.
> Commercial packages may appear to provide more software features, but
> what you pay is far more than the $120+ for the download. You can't
> send someone usable data files unless they own identical software.
You're going to find that in the photo and video industry, an
overwhelming majority of the workers use the identical software. And
like it or not, it ain't GIMP. Even GIMP developers have stated they
are not shooting for the same audience as Photoshop.
> (Usable does *not* mean flattening a multi-layer image!) You can't
Apparently you're unaware that Photoshop does support formats other
than its own native format. And that includes popular lossless
formats. In fact, its a rarity that I save anything in Photoshop's
native format once I'm finished working on it with Photoshop. There
are better formats.
> We don't need *any* Adobe product. It should shame the Linux community
> that it was Steve Jobs saying they don't need Flash and not the Linux
I swear I mean no personal offense with this, but I'm going to be
honest. Using His Holiness The Pope Saint Steve The First as an
example of what the Linux community should do made me laugh out loud
and almost spit tea on my display. From what I see by his daily
actions, Steve Jobs is to FOSS as British Petroleum is to
environmentally friendly energy production.
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