Photoshop 1.0 Source Code

Re:Photoshop 1.0 Source Code by coldtea on Thursday February 14, 2013 @03:38AM (#5218455)

>This particular source code is from an extremely old version of Photoshop, there would be no potential commercial harm whatsoever from allowing people to reuse this source code however they want.

It's not that easy I guess. Even Photoshop 1 has tons of patents in it's algorithms.

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Re:Photoshop 1.0 Source Code by nitrogen on Thursday February 14, 2013 @04:16AM (#5218605)

Photoshop 1 is old enough that any such patents should have expired.

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Re:Photoshop 1.0 Source Code by networked on Thursday February 14, 2013 @06:03AM (#5218897)

If that is true you could reimplement Photoshop 1.0 with the clean room method [1] and have a perfectly legal clone, which you would then be free to expand.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design

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Re:Photoshop 1.0 Source Code by nitrogen on Friday February 15, 2013 @03:53AM (#5225212)

Does Photoshop 1.0 have significant features that are missing in Gimp?

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