Re: Re: Purer Than Thou
On Jan 24, 2007, at 6:06 AM, Yann Morvan wrote:
I know it’s a bit prosaic but the free as in free beer thing can
make a difference: -Photoshop CS2 at the French Adobe Store: 1075.20 euros -The GIMP (G as in GNU): 0 euros The GIMP’s interface would have to seriously suck (and it doesn’t)
to make up for the time spent at work earning a Photoshop licence.
You know, I’m not a cheerleader for capitalism. Adobe’s stuff is
particularly overpriced and restrictively licensed too. But I
understand there are these stores in Russia…
Anyway, http://www.gimp.org/macintosh/ tells me:
There are various ways to obtain and install the GIMP for your
Macintosh. In addition to the source code distribution here on
www.gimp.org, there are various alternative sources for packaged
and commercially distributed CDs, which aim to make installation
and setup an easier task. These include:Gimp.app provides a self contained application bundle of the GIMP
for OS X. Gimp.app requires Apple’s X11.app. Gimp.app is packaged
by Aaron Voisine. Fink is a package management system that provides everything
necessary to build GIMP. The Fink project is based upon the Debian
apt-get package management tools, and can resolve dependencies
among the various components necessary for a working GIMP
installation. A typical install, however, will require that you
have a working C compiler, which Apple supplies on a companion CD
to Mac OS X. The current gimp package maintainer for the Fink
project is Alexander Strange. The default location for GIMP when
installed with fink is /sw/bin/gimp. In a similar approach, DarwinPorts provide an easy way to install
various open-source software products on Mac OS X. The gimp2
portfile is maintained by Toby Peterson. DarwinPorts places the
GIMP binary into /opt/local/bin. In the future, it is hoped that the MetaPkg project will unify
several of these installation methods, but the meta packaging
system is not yet usable. The MacGIMP project provides the latest GIMP for Mac OS X in a
packaged CD format. The MacGIMP project installs the GIMP in /opt/ local/bin. MacGIMP efforts are led by Mat Caughron. Last year he
helped the GIMP developers with a donation for their developers
conference.
Now with a little work I could deal with all this, but I’m guessing
95% of users would look at this, throw up their hands, and check
their bank balance.
There’s always GraphicConverter, $25 shareware.
Doug