secret300@lemmy.sdf.org to Open Source@lemmy.ml · 23 hours agoI don't know why but it pissed me off so much that they called gimp "freeware"www.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square56fedilinkarrow-up1169arrow-down118
arrow-up1151arrow-down1external-linkI don't know why but it pissed me off so much that they called gimp "freeware"www.tomshardware.comsecret300@lemmy.sdf.org to Open Source@lemmy.ml · 23 hours agomessage-square56fedilink
minus-squareganymede@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down17·edit-213 hours agoedit: it just occurred to me you may not be a native english speaker, in which case i apologise. “typically not” means it usually doesn’t happen. For anyone who’s wondering (from the GIMP manual) The GIMP is not freeware GIMP er ikkje såkalla “freeware” El GIMP no es freeware GIMP non è freeware GIMP n’est pas un freeware
minus-squareDem BosainlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·9 hours agoSorry, none of those are true. -GIMP is freeware. -It’s also open source. -It’s also free to distribute. -It’s free to modify. -It’s even free to sell, as long as you include the source code.
minus-squareganymede@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-28 minutes agohow lucky we are to have such expertise in here, knowing more about the software than the people who actually created it and wrote it in their own manual about their own software (page 4). The GIMP is not freeware
edit: it just occurred to me you may not be a native english speaker, in which case i apologise. “typically not” means it usually doesn’t happen.
For anyone who’s wondering (from the GIMP manual)
Sorry, none of those are true.
-GIMP is freeware.
-It’s also open source.
-It’s also free to distribute.
-It’s free to modify.
-It’s even free to sell, as long as you include the source code.
how lucky we are to have such expertise in here, knowing more about the software than the people who actually created it and wrote it in their own manual about their own software (page 4).