From: Diego Garcia <dg@linux.rocks>
Subject: Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1
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On Fri, 3 Jan 2025 07:27:46 -0500, -hh wrote:

> 
>> Linux is good all by itself. Doesn't need advocacy.
> 
> Its a tool like anything else, so use the right tool for the job.
> 

Your limited mind certainly would come to that simplistic conclusion.

A computer is *not* a tool -- it is a meta-tool.  IOW, it is a tool
that is used to create other tools.  A computer is akin to a grand
piano.  By itself it does nothing; it requires a consummate virtuoso
to bring forth its potential.

(Note: YOU are not a consummate virtuoso.  YOU are a subservient
user of simple tools.)

GNU/Linux allows the computing virtuoso to shine.  GNU/Linux
embodies the most efficient design and structure for the most
effective computing. 

Microslop/Apphole does not.  Microslop/Apphole are made only to feebly
empower idiots and retards -- like YOU.


> 
> For example, take a new digital camera: wouldn't it be nice to not have 
> to wait a year to read its new RAW file format?  Most folk just want 
> pics, so they choose a platform where its supported on launch, not to 
> have to sit down to DIY write & test a 3rd party driver first.
> 

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!  Another whopper from the mind
of a simpleton!

Remember film cameras?  Did the user of a Brand X film camera have
to buy Brand X film and then send his exposed rolls off to Brand X
for development?  No.  Film from any camera could be taken to any
corner drug store for processing.  All cameras used the same film
that used the same processing.

It should be the same with digital cameras, but the grubbing camera
makers have found a way to capture their users (and milk their money)
by creating unique RAW formats for each brand.

There is nothing exceptional about the RAW format.  Nikon, for example,
uses the standard TIFF image format with the addition of a few extra
proprietary tags.  That's all.  But those extra tags make the format
essentially closed and that's all Nikon, and the other makers, want.

The specs for these RAW formats could easily be published to allow
the public, and FOSS, to write their own software.

I want to use GNU/Linux to process my images and not junk Microslop/
Apphole.

The camera manufacturers are to blame and they should be assailed
with lawsuits, boycotts, and whatever else it would require to
cease their egregious exploitation.

But instead they have craven apologists like you that defend
their despicable actions.


>
> Meantime, my New Year's Resolution is to tweak my Linux NAS
>

Linux should include code that would halt all execution
on the hardware of infidels.