>From: Sebin Jacob <[email protected]> > >I do know that exceptions are not examples. But what you made was a sweeping >statement which had unsubstantiated claim. The declarative tone made me to >respond. I just wanted to make a point that you can make a living with FOSS. >
Praseed, I have to agree with Sebin on this. People CAN make a living without essentially coding or doing sysadmin work. Using GNU/Linux doesn't mean you're only a web-developer/sysadmin/programmer. Today I had the honour of meeting Mr. Russel Khader from Libre Graphics Studio Designs, Ekm North (His site, www.perpic.com is down). Mr. Khader runs a design studio ENTIRELY on FOSS tools. The only Windoze laptop he keeps is for his scanner, which he's going to get rid of shortly to switch to total FOSS tools. I quizzed him regarding failure of Gimp to do CMYK colour channel etc., and he was happy to sit down and demonstrate how he can retain CMYK channels in Scribus, by using Krita (KDE). He does brochures, visiting cards, flyers, you-name-it! He also took time to explain how to rescue CorelDraw induced problems in files, how to re-work on files which was produced by Windoze PhotoShop, and much more. He has in-depth knowledge of image file formats, colour profiles, proprietary tools compatibility issues, compression schemes and many more. He was using Ubuntu Lucid, and a keen researcher on latest updates on FOSS design domain. Also, he manages to keep his Scibus updated to the SVN repo one. He dismissed my comment on the general opinion of pubilc, as "people can't make a living out of free software". He himself is an example. It was indeed a pleasure meeting him. -- Mahesh Aravind _______________________________________________ Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org #[email protected]
