[Design-team] [OT] GIMP becoming too profi and thus will be excluded from Ubuntu distro

Nicu Buculei nicu_fedora at nicubunu.ro
Wed Dec 2 16:30:52 UTC 2009


On 12/02/2009 06:03 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>
> Out of the box, the Desktop spin offers:
>
> - a web browser
> - a mail/calendar/etc client
> - a VoIP/video chat program
> - a media/movie player
> - a music library player
> - a word processor
> - a document viewer
> - a photo viewr with simple editing

That's the same level of functionality as Windows OOTB, thanks but no 
thanks (at a second thought, it may be even less than Windows).

> Especially with the move to many web-based services and applications,
> I find that a far cry from 'does not offer any useful application', even
> if one particular one you may prefer isn't on there.

I thought we are here about Free software, which the web-based 
applications are not.

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