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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Question about kimageshop creation reasons
From:       Matthias Elter <me () main-echo ! net>
Date:       1999-08-24 9:25:12
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> Am Die, 24 Aug 1999 schrieb Joeri Sebrechts:
> > I see you are creating an alternative to the gimp. Thereby creating
> > competition on the open source world.
> > I know the gimp doesn't really have an evolutionary future right now.
> > But is it really worth al that effort to recreate a program \
> > (kimageshop) that already exists under the gpl ?

Whats your problem? Fair competition is a good thing! Look at KDE/GNOME, \
IMHO both projects and free software in general benefit from the \
competition. Competition helps to improve software. And by the way, KIS is \
not anti-GIMP, we write a image manipulation app for KOffice, thats all.

> > I sure hope you're reusing the gimp code as much as you can.
> > Hey, maybe it's my problem. But, I find it annoying every time I see \
> > two open source projects trying to build the same thing. Evn more so \
> > when one of them (in this case gimp) has already reached a more or less
> > finished state. I find it such a waste of effort just when we (the open
> > source / linux community) need to try to make as much "different" apps
> > as we can as quick as possible. So as to overtake the desktop world \
> > with open sourced apps.

I don't care about taking over the desktop world, I care about writing good \
free software and free beer.

> > When the desktop is ours I don't care how many people try to write the
> > same app over and over. But untill then it's just slowing us down.

I'm free to write the app I'm interested in. Why do you think you are in \
the position to tell people which apps "the community" needs and which not?

Greetings, Matthias

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Matthias Elter
me@kde.org / me@main-echo.net
KDE developer


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