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Adobe Says: Get a PC, Jerks!
slave:
Proprietary software, by definition, can never be better than free software because it is socially oppressive. We shouldn't just all throw up our hands and switch to proprietary software just because some of it is technically superior. Imagine if the early pioneers of free software had thought that, why, we'd have nothing but proprietary software! The solution is to build a free replacement for that software. If your job demands Photoshop or other non-free software, then I say stick with it of course, but for 90% of users having something like Dreamweaver is really pointless. The only non-free software I have on my computer are the drivers for my nVidia card and Warcraft III -- and with games I don't consider it particularly useful to have access to the source code, and even if War3 was freely distributable you need a unique Cd key to play it on battle.net. I guess that's rationalizing the situation but I think games should be considered differently than other kinds software.
So rant all you want about how great your proprietary software is, but all your'e doing is helping rich men build walls between computer users.
bling:
what did I tell you? ;)
xyle_one:
i like osX more than any other os i have used. therefor i use it. im not going to get rid of it becuase its proprietary. i will use the tools that can get the work done in the least amount of time, and retain a level of quality i demand of myself. sorry that mozilla composer does not do that. nor does gimp.
slave:
But can you at least admit that free software would do the job for most people? Not everyone needs the advanced features in Photoshop that Gimp doesn't have. Imagine what kind of free software we'd have if the public and corporations had donated all the money they've spent on Photoshop/3ds max/Flash/etc. to free software projects like Gimp.
xyle_one:
that would be nice, but its not the world we live in. it will take time to get there. most of those apps would suffice, but not for me im sorry to say. someday/
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