Do we want to be comparing Inkscape to MS Paint? I think this will probably get us laughed at at best. MS Paint was never meant to be professional graphics software like Inkscape is. People who use it do so for creative irony and nostalgia.
My thought- There are plenty of FLOSS graphics editors that can replace MS Paint, for what it does. We don't need to lower our software to the level of a basic (long obsolete) bitmap editor to get new users.
-C
On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 7:01 PM, Martin Owens <doctormo@...400...> wrote:
On Mon, 2017-07-24 at 10:14 -0700, alvinpenner wrote:
also, for an alternative, see Paint.NET: https://www.getpaint.net/
I think this program is actually better than the original MS Paint anyways.
Isn't that proprietary? It kinda defeats the point if I said "Hey look your toys can be taken away at any time because you have no rights, here have the other toy that gives you no rights."
Although to be fair to Paint.NET, they started out OSS (MIT) and got walloped by loss aversion. So a 3.36 fork would be possible to recommend, but not Paint.NET itself. (This is one of the good things about the GPL, plagiarism for us is either helping us distribute for free, a license violation or a trademark violation)
It's an interesting history and lesson to what can go wrong in a project that doesn't really understand Free Software.
Best Regards, Martin Owens
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