[Openicc] Linux CM ideology .. Linux CM proposal

[edmund ronald]

Chris,

I think the big advantage of Gutenprint is that even if Robert dropped
it, small maintenance could continue so users would get several years
of grace to migrate or for someone to take it up again.
I was able to get a new printer up (3880) and print to professional
color managed standard with it with about a day's work. The main help
to do so came not from Robert but from Till Kampeter.

Frankly, if you want a commercial supported ecosystem for everyday
desktop graphics work, Microsoft or Apple, Adobe and a RIP  now
provide decent and fairly inexpensive solutions for end-users. Most of
us are aware of that, and we don't try to export revolution. The
machine I am writing on is a Mac.

But Linux is useful for some purposes, and it looks like with Android
it has already outpaced the Mac, and will soon have a bigger installed
base than Microsoft, and these guys need to be able to view films
photos, and even print.


Edmund

On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Robert Krawitz <rlk at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Feb 2011 23:48:17 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote:
>> On Feb 8, 2011, at 8:00 PM, Robert Krawitz wrote:
>>>  And you're at the mercy of the vendor if it decides
>>> to drop support for the software.  <shrug>So we have a philosophical
>>> difference...</shrug>
>>
>> Well it's kinda like saying we're at the mercy of Robert Krawitz's
>> going concern on planet earth. Yes the code is open source and
>> someone else could pick up the project, or maybe they won't.
>
> Anyone who's motivated enough -- including an end user -- could pick
> it up.  That's the difference.  And that's a big difference.
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