Paint.NET ? Blog Archive ? Paint.NET v3.30 — Final release now available!

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Submitted by dalziel 4 months ago

It’s finally here! You can grab it via the built-in updater from the Help-> Check for Updates menu item, or go get it straight from the website at http://www.getpaint.net/

"Microsoft Set for Lock-in-backed Hijack"

"This strategy of lock-in stretches well beyond file formats. It also creates lethal and viral (as in “transferable”) integration of the server side and the desktop side. As mentioned many times before, all of this is happening quietly. It’s happening quietly for a reason. You never yell when approaching a rabbit."

"Microsoft intends to use its ’special’ deals to spread and make vital the use of Silverlight and .NET. Novell is among the biggest contributors (if the only one) to semi-baked ports of technology that should not be adopted in the first place. Novell gives customers and prospective developers the wrong impression — the impression that Free software will be compatible with technologies that Microsoft controls. It turns Linux into ‘cheap Windows’ that is enslaved to a monopoly."

http://boycottnovell.com/2007/08/26/novell-lockin-support/

GIMP is a much better choice:

"GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages."

http://www.gimp.org/

- CyberPhoenix
- added 4 months ago
"Microsoft Set for Lock-in-backed Hijack"

"This strategy of lock-in stretches well beyond file formats. It also creates lethal and viral (as in “transferable”) integration of the server side and the desktop side. As mentioned many times before, all of this is happening quietly. It’s happening quietly for a reason. You never yell when approaching a rabbit."

"Microsoft intends to use its ’special’ deals to spread and make vital the use of Silverlight and .NET. Novell is among the biggest contributors (if the only one) to semi-baked ports of technology that should not be adopted in the first place. Novell gives customers and prospective developers the wrong impression — the impression that Free software will be compatible with technologies that Microsoft controls. It turns Linux into ‘cheap Windows’ that is enslaved to a monopoly."

http://boycottnovell.com/2007/08/26/novell-lockin-support/

GIMP is a much better choice:

"GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages."

http://www.gimp.org/
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