How Apple makes more profit on their systems... By controling the support sphere

[Bill McGonigle]

On 10/05/2009 12:36 PM, Tom Buskey wrote:
> 
> Apple hasn't been as free with their hardware in the past (the 68k
> systems) and the iPod/IPhone are in that group, but the x86 systems have
> been fairly open to different OSen and software.

FYI, NetBSD is pretty good on the 68k machines.

> The Gimp vs Photoshop is a good example.  Gimp can do everything
> Photoshop does, but people like the look & feel of Photoshop.....

GIMP has been properly likened to PhotoShop 5.5 in terms of features -
but non-RBG color-spaces aren't even supported yet.  GIMP 2.8 is
supposed to _finally_ have a single-window mode and incorporate
GIMPShop-inspired GUI design elements.  Several forks have been done of
GIMP because the GIMP management didn't want GIMP to be what other
people wanted of it.

Oh, and on Fedora GIMP will crash when a new document is created and the
cursor is clicked on the canvas.  Disable VNC in the X server via an
xorg.conf negation to get it to run.

-Bill

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