Victoryofthepeople
December 2nd, 2010, 04:53 AM
I'm calling for your help, people.
I'm currently writing an essay about why is OSS so unpopular (in despite what everyone here might say, you can't say it actually IS popular). But then, it came to my mind!
The reason why OSS don't meet the sucess it should is not because of it's inferiority, of a badly designed interface, of lazy developpers or anything like that! No!
All of this is because of hacking!
Think about it for a moment. Photoshop is roughly 600 bucks. Yet, I can't cease to be amazed my how many people around me uses it! And not only that, but it's the same thing all over the internet! NO ONE buys photoshop, aside from those who are planning to use it for buisness, and that is probably the reason why GIMP users represent a minority nowadays.
The main argument about free software is it's freeness (aside from it's freedom). But remove the "price" aspect from the equation, and people will necessarely tend to go for Proprietary/Commercial software simply because:
A) There are more tutorials about it
B) Professionals use it
C) It inexplicably have more plugins than GIMP
D) Around the Internet, it seems like artworks done with Photoshop somehow always look better
And what's left after that to defent OSS?
Nothing. Nothing but your own moral.
But that's not my point.
That is just an idea, right?
What I'm really looking for is:
"Are there any reliable sources to prove that?"
I'm currently writing an essay about why is OSS so unpopular (in despite what everyone here might say, you can't say it actually IS popular). But then, it came to my mind!
The reason why OSS don't meet the sucess it should is not because of it's inferiority, of a badly designed interface, of lazy developpers or anything like that! No!
All of this is because of hacking!
Think about it for a moment. Photoshop is roughly 600 bucks. Yet, I can't cease to be amazed my how many people around me uses it! And not only that, but it's the same thing all over the internet! NO ONE buys photoshop, aside from those who are planning to use it for buisness, and that is probably the reason why GIMP users represent a minority nowadays.
The main argument about free software is it's freeness (aside from it's freedom). But remove the "price" aspect from the equation, and people will necessarely tend to go for Proprietary/Commercial software simply because:
A) There are more tutorials about it
B) Professionals use it
C) It inexplicably have more plugins than GIMP
D) Around the Internet, it seems like artworks done with Photoshop somehow always look better
And what's left after that to defent OSS?
Nothing. Nothing but your own moral.
But that's not my point.
That is just an idea, right?
What I'm really looking for is:
"Are there any reliable sources to prove that?"