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[News] 64% Use Free Software for Photo Editing, Most Photoshop Users Infinge on Copyrights

  • Subject: [News] 64% Use Free Software for Photo Editing, Most Photoshop Users Infinge on Copyrights
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:17:26 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Freelance
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
60% of Photoshop Users are PIRATES!

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| And out of the four groups in the poll, this was the only one with absolutely 
| no piracy. Go figure. I’m actually impressed at how many people use free and  
| open source software for photo editing — 64%! And only 19% of those are using 
| the software that came with their cameras. The rest is all open source and 
| freeware/shareware. Good for you guys! Although, there’s probably some 
| percentage of free software users who have pirated copies of commercial 
| software.     
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http://blog.epicedits.com/2008/03/28/60-of-photoshop-users-are-pirates/

Also new:

Report: Complaints trigger rewrite of Photoshop Express terms

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| Grunin's response: "I'm going to give Adobe the benefit of the doubt and 
| assume someone forgot to put the choke collar on the lawyers, letting 
| something this undesirable slip through." And she was right on the money, at 
| least according to a report from Adobe blogger John Nack, who contacted Adobe  
| with concerns about the terms of service.   
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9906064-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

Adobe can't think outside the box?


Related:

Adobe targets school kids to get them hooked on software

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| Adobe is where the 'apps' are manufactured. These apps that have the
| power to make images appear before our children's eyes. "There were
| all these, like, stars, and they were rotating. It really captured
| my attention," said Nigel, 14, hardly more than a child, but with
| the vacant expression of a man who has spent hours looking at a
| screen. Nigel has now discovered he needs glasses.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38254


Microsoft Happy with the Evolution of Windows Vista Piracy

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| But the truth is that Microsoft is happy with the way Windows Vista
| piracy is evolving. Is there a catch to this? No. The fact of the
| matter is that Windows Vista has delivered a heavy blow to
| software counterfeiters. The reason for this is the new Windows
| Genuine Advantage security mechanism integrated into the
| operating system.
| 
| You may not notice this on the surface. On the surface, the
| Internet is crawling with Windows Vista cracks, hacks and
| workarounds. On the surface, every Windows Vista edition has
| been cracked and is available for download via peer-to-peer 
| networks. But this is not the true extent of Windows Vista piracy.
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http://news.softpedia.com/news/Microsoft-Happy-with-the-Evolution-of-Windows-Vista-Piracy-50577.shtml


Governments Must Reject Gates' $3 Bid to Addict Next Billion PC Users 

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| "Microsoft's strategy of getting developing nations hooked on its
| software was clearly outlined by Bill Gates almost a decade ago," said
| Con Zymaris, CEO of long-standing open source firm Cybersource. 
| 
| Specifically, Bill Gates, citing China as an example, said:
|  
|   "Although about 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but
|   people don't pay for the software," he said. "Someday they will, though.
|   As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours.
|   They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to
|   collect sometime in the next decade."[1]
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http://www.cybersource.com.au/press/gates_set_to_addict_next_billion.html


Introducing my Vietnamese Students to Gimp

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| Well, six days away from Tet, the Vietnamese New Year. This is the last week 
| of class at the American International School, where I teach computer 
| science, before the week and a half long holiday (well for me at least). The 
| 3rd Quarter also started this week so I decided, as part of my web 
| development curriculum, to introduce my students to the Gimp. The class went 
| very well.     
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http://www.saigonnezumi.com/?p=546


Escaping the Photoshop trap

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| FOR the longest time, Adobe Photoshop was the biggest deal breaker for many 
| people who considered moving from Windows to Linux. The most popular 
| commercial image editing program was simply unavailable on Linux, and the 
| free and open source Gimp—short for GNU Image Manipulation Program—was often 
| regarded as a poor man’s substitute.    
| 
| [...]
| 
| But the significant improvements in the latest version make Gimp an excellent 
| tool for most home users, digital photographers and Web designers, many of 
| whom will be able to break free of the Photoshop trap.  
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http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=business6_jan22_2008


Web designing with Ubuntu

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| As a freelance web designer, I really thought migrating to Ubuntu Linux will 
| give me a really hard time. I never thought that Ubuntu Linux has a very good 
| graphic design tool that can do what I am doing with Photoshop. Although Gimp 
| is still way too different with Photoshop, I still see Gimp as a very 
| powerful tool in graphic and web designing. It also possess features that 
| Photoshop has.     
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http://pinoy-blog.isoftinno.com/2007/10/23/web-designing-with-ubuntu/

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