The article about Inkscape is now live on OS News:
http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=9049
Also, we got picked up on LWN:
http://lwn.net/Articles/113513/
And Footnotes:
http://gnomedesktop.org/node/2062
Bryce
This is awesome!
I had to post one of these comments...we are getting plenty!
"I have to say, since the fork from Sodipodi, Inkscape has come on leaps and bounds. In terms of speed, stability, usability, and features (aka everything you could want) it has moved on massively. It definitely shows the guys were right to fork and that the Sodipodi development methodology was stifling the project. I would now list Inkscape among the top 5 open source desktop applications in terms of showcasing the Free Software desktop."
Jon
On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 22:05:30 -0800 (PST), Bryce Harrington wrote
The article about Inkscape is now live on OS News:
http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=9049Also, we got picked up on LWN:
http://lwn.net/Articles/113513/And Footnotes:
http://gnomedesktop.org/node/2062Bryce
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On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, jon wrote:
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 03:03:10 -0500 From: jon <jon@...87...> To: inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net, inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Inkscape-devel] Re: [Inkscape-user] Article: Introducing Inkscape 0.40
This is awesome!
I had to post one of these comments...we are getting plenty!
"I have to say, since the fork from Sodipodi, Inkscape has come on leaps and bounds. In terms of speed, stability, usability, and features (aka everything you could want) it has moved on massively. It definitely shows the guys were right to fork and that the Sodipodi development methodology was stifling the project. I would now list Inkscape among the top 5 open source desktop applications in terms of showcasing the Free Software desktop."
It was brought to my attention recently that some of the things we have been saying about Inkscape might be interpreted as hostile to Sodipodi (and were interpreted that way by at least the person I talked to).
Jon, I'm sure it was intention to praise Inkscape not to bury Sodipodi but I hope you understand how it could be read either way, and that I am merely using this as a chance to bring up something that had already been pointed out to me.
I hope to look through the Wiki soon and try and rephrase things to make it more difficult to accidentally interpet things that way and try and empahsise the nice things people have said about Sodipodi ('standing on the shoulders of giants' etc). I'm sure I myself have said excessively critical things about Sodipodi in my efforts to praise Inkscape.
Due to the nature of the fork it made sense at the time to justify Inkscape and compare it in terms of Sodipodi, and sometimes it still does but I would hope now that Inkscape can begin to compare itself against some of the commercial Vector graphics software and that even the perception of hostility to Sodipodi can be avoided.
Sincerely
Alan Horkan
Free SVG Clip Art http://OpenClipArt.org Inkscape, Draw Freely http://inkscape.org Abiword is Awesome http://abisource.com
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