Published on 2006-10-10 12:16:04
ComputerWorld have an interesting article about Open Source usage for graphics. In fact the contribution of graphics designers in Open source are very small. Of course we don't forget initiatives such OSWD which is feeding the open source community with great design, but it still not enough compared to open source activities in other fields. Why do you think open source is under-utilised in graphics ??
Graphic artists and designers, in particular, seem resistant to the idea of community collaboration. Sure, there are Creative Commons licences available, but I haven’t seen many examples of them in action among the graphic arts community. Where they are employed, they’re usually applied to complete works by a single author.
But what about the other more mundane applications of graphic design? Think about the icons, wizards, menus, templates and other graphic elements that go into the applications you use every day. Nobody wins any accolades for drawing the picture of a globe that you click on when you want to add a hyperlink to your word processor document. And yet, today’s GUI applications need these kinds of contributions almost as much as they need the program code underneath.
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