comparing to the best available proprietary software *is* apples to apples

comparing to the best available proprietary software *is* apples to apples

Posted May 6, 2004 0:11 UTC (Thu) by stevenj (subscriber, #421)
In reply to: Try comparing Apples to Oranges by GreyWizard
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's guide to diagram editors

Well, here you are on a web site with an explict free software focus, reading an article (by someone who admits in the first sentence that he is not artistically inclined) that attempts to survey free software drawing tools for simple diagrams—excuse me, primitive 1980 illustrations—and all you can think to do is moan about the lack of whizzy proprietary graphic artist tools? Settle down for goodness sakes.

I'm not moaning about the lack of proprietary graphics programs—I'm moaning that I want to use a free drawing programs, but they all seem to be dramatically inferior to the proprietary stuff on other operating systems (even proprietary drawing programs from 10 years ago).

I'm still optimistic that this will change, but it won't as long as we compare only to other free-software programs on a platform (Unix) that traditionally hasn't had good graphics software (until MacOS X). Please, raise the bar!

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