The complaint about the version for the Mac (using X) is very valid in my opinion. Some Photoshop users are elitist towards The Gimp and some BSD user can be elitist with regard to Linux. Microsoft Windows is a costly proprietary platform too, but 1.1.1 is up to date for that platform now, isn’t it? The word ‘elitist’ can be applied to any OS and to any userbase of an application. *NIX based application are easily ported (as is shown by the fink project and opendarwin ports system). The point about the Mac being a ‘costly proprietary elitist platform with small and diminishing market share’ is irrelevant too. If you want to make joe end user, use your ‘open and free’ product instead of a closed and proprietary alternative, you might also want to listen to the complaints and grievances of the end user (who is hardly ever a programmer). The excuse that we should stop complaining and thank the devs for doing such a bang up job ‘for free’ is a moot point when you want to compete with commercial products out there.
If GIMP 2.0 and Abiword (the latter in an aqua version) can be released for the Mac platform at the same time as the rest of the supported architectures, I wonder why can’t do the same.
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