Comment by dadrock
14 days ago
I fully support him and Photopea, but come on. It is clearly in every single way a Photoshop rip-off. There is no denying it by reasonable people.
14 days ago
I fully support him and Photopea, but come on. It is clearly in every single way a Photoshop rip-off. There is no denying it by reasonable people.
It's a clean room implementation of Photoshop features and UI. That's not a ripoff. Just like Wine or Mono aren't Windows ripoffs.
Does this mean that every mass-produced automobile is a ripoff of the Ford model T? Is Gimp also a ripoff? Paintshop Pro?
I’m with you in spirit, but please don't bring up gimp in this context.
It’s like mentioning your nephew is pretty good at the piano, when people are discussing if John Williams was copying Holst.
Ouch
what is the difference between "ripoff" and "fairly feature-comparable alternative"?
I find Photopea to be completely legitimate, and ripoff is too strong, but you can recognize that it's not just a "fairly feature-comparable alternative". It has most of the functionality at the exact same place, with the exact same shapes, because that will help user if they already know how to work with Photoshop. That makes Photopea a well-executed clone, one that has been reimplemented on another platform from scratch.
It's a reimplementation.
A rip off would be using the actual Photoshop source code.