Xara X to Be Released as Open Source

zero-one writes "Xara today announced that they are releasing an open source version of their vector drawing program, Xara Xtreme. They already have a Linux demo but source code is not available quite yet. Xara Xtreme on Linux will not only bring a leading-edge graphic tool to the platform, but with community assistance, has the potential to become the world's most powerful, easiest-to-use and simply the world's best graphics program. If they get this right it could bring the Linux desktop into whole sectors of the market that is has not been able to address before."

Sell Adobe?

[Nom du Keyboard]

Time to sell my Adobe stock?

Guess what? Won't happen!

[_undan]

Illustrators and designers like their shiny macs and have (generally) spent years learning the Adobe suite. Why do you think nobody gives 3 tosses about Corel?

Okay, so 10/10 for style, minus several million for yet another "OMG OPENSOURCE WILL SAVE TEH WORLD SQUEE" post.

And, before anyone says "But, GIMP!" - I work with ACTUAL designers. They all think it's an ugly piece of shit.

Re:Why?

[poot_rootbeer]

" has the potential to become the world's most powerful, easiest-to-use and simply the world's best graphics program"

So does MS Paint, but I fully expect that potential to go unrealized.

Re:Really F*cking good

[danharan]

So, you're on /. and claim to have an SO and then you compare her to a mountain goat.

A shame dude, your story was almost credible until that point.

A mountain goat! sheesh

Re:I don't like this...

[spitzak]

Obviously you have not been paying attention. I remember at least two flames in earlier discussions where somebody said "it's really hard to make a flyer in Gimp". When asked about Photoshop they than said "On Windows I'd use Illustrator, obviously.".

Re:I don't like this...

[00lmz]

...doing useless things (like converting to GTK2, which doesn't really solve the problem of it being GTK) when they could be implementing features, improving quality of said features, or porting to a toolkit that doesn't suck.

I guess you know what the G in GTK stands for, don't you?