Thank you!! NELCHAI was a severe annoyance and you resolved the problem by dismissing him. Please accept my appreciation for the hard work you do, especially since it is psychological and, thus, insidiously difficult to work with. Thank you, Tyler! You are, indeed, doing a hero's job here.
I posted a reply to a comment by a user of Inkscape regarding the memory dump / cpu overload bug. I told them that the bug has existed for years. I also told the individual that instead of trying to fix the bug, that the management - not the coders - would react to the thread in one of three ways. I said that one of those would be to tell the people asking the question to go away. That is exactly what is happening. It has gone to the extreme that all comments regarding that issue have been removed from the threads. Censorship is not professional behavior.
I do not use this software because it is free. I use it because it creates a database of graphic design elements which can be manipulated by the user. I am more than able to afford the alternatives.
My presence on the forum was to gauge the maturity of the management. I have been using Inkscape for 10 to 15 years as a professional artist and have always had a philosophical issue with the team. I once actually had to pull out a dictionary of technology to provide definitions regarding basic concepts like rendering. Over the time I have used this software, my experiences with its management have never been user centric or professional. I wanted t know if that had changed in the last few years. It has not.
A product that I was preparing to go to market with is based on this technology and the database opportunity. I wanted to know how my customers would be responded to when they ask questions that were critical in nature. I wanted to know if the management of Inkscape had matured to a level that I would feel comfortable supporting by encouraging customers to use it.
The way this team has reacted to criticism about a known bug - the memory dump issue - which has existed for at least 10 years - and my question as to why it has not yet been fixed - has been revealing. It is also revealing that the Inkscape team will tell people to use an earlier edition [ 48 or 93 ] for better performance. If those iterations perform better, why does 1.1 exist?
You have answered my questions.
I can not recommend this software as a tool safe for use by my customers.
You have lost a large influx of users and the support they would have given.
A product that I was preparing to go to market with is based on this technology and the database opportunity.
Anyone is welcome to use Inkscape for commercial applications, but it isthe responsibility of the user to ensure that Inkscape is suitable for their use. Any user is welcome to improve on the code wherever they find it is deficient. However, using portions of the program in other programs without permission is not allowed.
We protect your rights with two steps: (1) copyright the software, and (2) offer you this license which gives you legal permission to copy, distribute and/or modify the software.
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Tyler,
Thank you!! NELCHAI was a severe annoyance and you resolved the problem by dismissing him. Please accept my appreciation for the hard work you do, especially since it is psychological and, thus, insidiously difficult to work with. Thank you, Tyler! You are, indeed, doing a hero's job here.
Please stay well,
Roy
I posted a reply to a comment by a user of Inkscape regarding the memory dump / cpu overload bug. I told them that the bug has existed for years. I also told the individual that instead of trying to fix the bug, that the management - not the coders - would react to the thread in one of three ways. I said that one of those would be to tell the people asking the question to go away. That is exactly what is happening. It has gone to the extreme that all comments regarding that issue have been removed from the threads. Censorship is not professional behavior.
I do not use this software because it is free. I use it because it creates a database of graphic design elements which can be manipulated by the user. I am more than able to afford the alternatives.
My presence on the forum was to gauge the maturity of the management. I have been using Inkscape for 10 to 15 years as a professional artist and have always had a philosophical issue with the team. I once actually had to pull out a dictionary of technology to provide definitions regarding basic concepts like rendering. Over the time I have used this software, my experiences with its management have never been user centric or professional. I wanted t know if that had changed in the last few years. It has not.
A product that I was preparing to go to market with is based on this technology and the database opportunity. I wanted to know how my customers would be responded to when they ask questions that were critical in nature. I wanted to know if the management of Inkscape had matured to a level that I would feel comfortable supporting by encouraging customers to use it.
The way this team has reacted to criticism about a known bug - the memory dump issue - which has existed for at least 10 years - and my question as to why it has not yet been fixed - has been revealing. It is also revealing that the Inkscape team will tell people to use an earlier edition [ 48 or 93 ] for better performance. If those iterations perform better, why does 1.1 exist?
You have answered my questions.
I can not recommend this software as a tool safe for use by my customers.
You have lost a large influx of users and the support they would have given.
Wayyyyy too unprofessional!
Thank you for your useless insights.
You have been asked to leave for having denigrated the developers with unfriendly, unhelpful and unfair comments.
Anyone is welcome to use Inkscape for commercial applications, but it is the responsibility of the user to ensure that Inkscape is suitable for their use. Any user is welcome to improve on the code wherever they find it is deficient. However, using portions of the program in other programs without permission is not allowed.