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Re: [LUG] Canonical's use of non-Free Software

 

On Mon, 16 May 2011 17:11:41 +0100
Stuart Metcalfe wrote:

> On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 11:11 +0100, Grant Sewell wrote:
> > I can't remember how I got here, but I came across this page today:
> > http://design.canonical.com/the-toolkit/canonical-brand-guides/
> > 
> > I downloaded the PDF document that is linked and discovered that the
> > PDF document's original title was:
> >   canonical_interim_guides.indd
> > 
> > I figured I knew what a ".indd" file was, but just to be sure I
> > checked: http://www.fileinfo.com/extension/indd
> > 
> > Now, I appreciate that Adobe InDesign is considered to be the
> > "industry standard" by many, but I would have thought they'd make
> > the effort to use Free Software considering who they are and what
> > their biggest product is.
> 
> Actually, the vast majority of Canonical staff use all open source
> tools and there's a strong culture of dog-fooding.  There are a few
> people dotted about who, for one reason or another, use non-free
> alternatives but they're definitely the exception.  "They" in this
> case, is probably a designer who comes from a commercial background
> and (when this document was written in the middle of last year) still
> used the tools they were most comfortable/productive with in order to
> get the job done.
> 
> Stu

Fair enough.  Maybe I was just jumping to conclusions.

Grant.

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