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Originally Posted by MovieBird
No, they are NOT comparable products. GIMP doesn't do CMYK which is a necessity for real printing, nor does it do layered tifs or deal with psd files well. Oh, and it doesn't do lots of RAW formats from cameras, making it pretty useless for anybody that uses photography in any way. Not to mention that all those cool photoshop brushes and layers are not transferable to GIMP gradients.
Openoffice does not preserve formatting 100% in most Microsoft documents, which makes it useless for those that deal with corporate culture. Microsoft is the dominant office productivity package, like it or not. As long as Microsoft has this death grip over office productivity, anything that delivers less than 100% compatibility just doesn't cut it.
This just goes to show that proprietary formats work wonderfully for market leaders, while everyone else should use open standards.
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Well sure there are some details that are different. I never said they were clones of each other, but for 95% of what the average user does they are perfect substitutes.
