Re: Logo contest - `MUST be manipulated entirely in the GIMP'

[Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>]

Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:

> I read the article in debian-announce, and went to the website.
> 
> I noticed the following restriction:
>   The image MUST be manipulated entirely in the GIMP
> 
> Now, for a GIMP contest I'm sure this is appropriate.  However, it is
> not appropriate for the Debian logo.  If I wish to submit an entry
> which I have produced using some other software (free or for that
> matter not free) I should be allowed to do so.

FWIW, I agree.  It would have been nice if the GIMP people had had the
largesse to sponsor a more open contest and then just assumed that the
people who didn't use the GIMP would only be hurting themselves :>

Frankly, I've designed some things in straight postscript (or written
scheme programs that generated postscript), and these came out nicely.
This isn't for everyone, but it demonstrates that you don't *have* to
use a GUI tool to generate nice graphics, with command-line
ray-tracers being an even better example.

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