[SGVLUG] Fwd: InfoWorld: Graphic eye for the open source guy- thought you guys might like the read! =)

[munjal thakkar]

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From: Open Enterprise <openenterprise at newsletter.infoworld.com>
Date: 26 Sep 2006 11:03:22 PDT
Subject: InfoWorld: Graphic eye for the open source guy
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OPEN ENTERPRISE: NEIL MCALLISTER               http://www.infoworld.com/
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Tuesday, September 26, 2006

GRAPHIC EYE FOR THE OPEN SOURCE GUY


By Neil McAllister

Posted September 25, 3:00 a.m. Pacific Time

There's no shortage of open source programmers out there. According to a
recent study of 5,000 developers by the research firm IDC, fully 71
percent said they used open source software, and half reported that use
of open source was increasing within their organizations.

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Outside of coding, however, few fields of endeavor have embraced open
source practices on their own. Last week I mentioned how Sun and others
have begun experimenting with open source practices for chip design, but
if you stray from the realm of computing, you'll be hard pressed to find
examples of similar principles in practice.

Graphic artists and designers, in particular, seem resistant to the idea
of community collaboration. Sure, there are Creative Commons licenses
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.

The Firefox Web browser is one of the most popular open source
applications in use today, in addition to being one of the best funded
and best marketed. And yet, even Firefox has struggled to add graphic
polish to its menus and widgets.

For a while, the default user interface theme for Firefox was a set of
icons called Qute, designed by Arvid Axelsson. When the Firefox team was
unable to reach agreement with Axelsson about licensing terms for his
copyrighted artwork, however, Qute was withdrawn and replaced with a
different (and arguably ...

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