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From: -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com>
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Subject: Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2024 11:20:06 -0500
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On 12/30/24 6:22 PM, Andrzej Matuch wrote:
> > [chrisv butthurt snipped]
> 
> What I like about both GIMP and Krita is that I can install them with 
> one command and have full access to their features the moment they are 
> installed. 

Sure.

> With Photoshop, I imagine that I have to create an account, 
> put in my credit card information, download the software, enter my 
> account information to finally be able to use it.
> 
> With that said, I ask this question: is anyone else fed up of creating 
> accounts to download software? 

But aren't such measures simply being commensurate to their business 
model of having a product that's being sold, instead of FOSS?

For example, I can recall there being software anti-piracy efforts done 
way, way back in the 1970s Apple ][ era.  Early protection stuff often 
involved hidden files on the floppy install disk.

Later stuff included things like how in Warcraft I, you'd be prompted to 
enter a word from a certain page / paragraph in the owner's manual, etc.

Bottom line to all of it was that the software developer wasn't giving 
away their works for free, so they were trying to limit illegal copies.

> Is anyone else fed up of navigating to 
> specific sites to download those programs and carefully check that 
> they're not downloading a malware-infested version of the program? 

And this 'carefully check' was because the website wasn't the OEM's?
Kind of sounds like an admission of visits to Pirate's Bay... <g>


> I'm sure that GIMP and Krita lack a few features, but you can use them 
> anonymously all the while not being charged a cent to use either. You 
> can also acquire them within seconds, depending on the speed of your 
> Internet connection.

Yet an internet connection and ability to use credit are merely modern 
updates ... it used to be a credit card (or cash) transacted in a 
physical visit to the local brick & mortar computer store.  Technology 
marches ever onward.


-hh