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"Linux Desktop: A Collective Delusion" - an unhinged rant
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That's kind of hard to do when your software is open source and distributed on every Linux distro's repos. Someone will fork it as soon as this happens and at the same time FOSS enthusiasts will not be happy with it, and GIMP will lose most (if not all) of it's donations.
That’s a good point. I wish they could do what reaper does, because I think it’s a fantastic model. But it would be a bad luck in the FOSS world, which is basically why they exist in the first place. Fair but unfortunate point lol