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Story: Bring the tangible benefits of Linux to your organisation

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Posted by: Mark Jones (Friday 24 June 2005, 12:45 PM)

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Janet says "For example, GIMP is a fully functional, free graphics package that runs on Linux. Users running Windows need to purchase PhotoShop, or an equivalent commercial package, to edit graphics files."

In reality, GIMP has for a long time been fully available on Windows from http://www.gimp.org/windows.

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