[svlug] Any other photo geeks?

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Christian Einfeldt (einfeldt at gmail.com):

> I hope that the MSFT acquisition of Yahoo fails, simply because
> consumers are more well-served by three competitors.  As awful as the
> borg is, I do welcome even their competition against Google, because
> as much as I like Google, I would not want to see them be the only
> vendor of on-line services.

By the way, who needs "vendors" to just house a few photos on the Web?
Personally, I prefer open source software, Linux, and a static IP address.  
To quote http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Essays/winolj.html :

   [...]
   You like Flickr; we have Gallery [link] and the Open Media and Image
   Exchange (OMIXX) [link] project.
   [...]

   The open-source, host-it-yourself codebases listed above may not be
   polished and bulletproof, yet, but, unlike hosted services, they're ours
   permanently and here to stay. They're for you, too.

   Did I mention that we're serious about this? When Bubble 2.0 is dead
   and gone, we'll still be here.

See also:  "Gallery Alternatives" on http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Apps/

> If wouldn't mind tarring up those pics and sending them to me, I would like
> to put them up on the DTP picasaweb site.  Thanks either way for considering
> my request.

I note in passing that the Idealab's^WGoogles's Picasa software is
likewise proprietary.

See also:
Graphics Apps, Vector 
Graphics Apps, Raster
Graphics Apps, Other
on http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Apps/