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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