On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 05:57:17AM +0000, Tor Lillqvist wrote: > Carol Spears writes: > > TheGIMP is not photoshop. it was written so that linux people would not > > not have to use a different operating system > > Was it? GIMP was originally written on the commercial Unixes of the > time (Solaris, HP-UX etc), wasn't it? And it used Motif. And it still > runs as well on most other UNIXes as it does on Linux, doesn't it? > okay, this is the reason that i used it. i learned of its superiority. like tigert thought that you didnt use the gimp until after you used the irc, i guess i did not think that much about gimp without gtk. there is a couple of emails about when gimp development was started. http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=petm-2907952329370001%40charnley.hip.berkeley.edu&output=gplain http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3ua2hd%24bbv%40agate.berkeley.edu&output=gplain heh, google. > > and/or steal. > > As there aren't any commercial competition to the GIMP on Linux (or is > there?), your statement doesn't really make sense, does it? True, GIMP > being available on Windows might prevent Windows people from pirating > Photoshop or PaintShopPro. But that hardly applies to Linux, what > would they steal if there wasn't GIMP? > well, they decided not to steal motif anymore or something. carol
