On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, Bob Jamison wrote:
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 10:27:45 -0500 From: Bob Jamison <rjamison@...357...> To: inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Inkscape-devel] Article mentioning Inkscape
I noticed another mention of Inkscape here:
Footnotes, Gnomedesktop.org has also picked up the story http://www.gnomedesktop.org/article.php?sid=1890
Same article mentioned on OSNews http://osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=7755 editorial comment was Our Take: While these apps are extremely valuable for Unix users, they can't compete in the professional marketplace with Photoshop or Illustrator. They just don't do as much or they don't always do it in an expected way. More here and here.
It is a fairly broad but straightforward statement, not something I'd expect people here to disagree with (inkscape doesn't need to beat Illustrator, users can have both!) but predictably it offended lots of gimp users. Few of the comments mention Inkscape, I wouldn't recommend trawling through them, in fact aside from the editorial comment there isn't really anything extra added to the story that is relevant to inkscape.
Jon's comment the other day about directly targeting the market for Mobile SVG was particularly interesting, it looks like a strong opportunity fill a niche and to commercialise Inkscape if any developers were interested in competing in 'the marketplace' and earning from their work on Inkscape. (If only I were a C++ programmer!)
- Alan