Imee

Hi midi,welcome..... This is my first post as well. I've been following the Paint.net development for a number of year's,and I have to say it's been improving the entire time,great job. I'm surprised that some large corporation hasn't approached the University to offer to purchase the product..... It's happened in the past. Open sourced projects got thrown out for a profit. Nevertheless I'm happy that it's currently free to use,and the added benefit of the "CodeLab" capability to write plugins for Paint.net is a nice feature indeed,I am reminded of PDW(formerly Project Dog Waffle)sharing that ability. So much so that I donated for the work involved for the plugin editor/compiler nicely done($5.00). Indeed Paint.net is gaining popularity,as I have experienced many whom reference the program across a wide assortment of forum area's. And with the advent of many of the popular commercial brands on the market moving more towards a plugin environment,in which the upgrades are plugins rather than feature overhauls,then Paint.net stays as a viable alternative to the big dollar must roll out new versions every year to sustain,and or release complimentary softwares to oblige the needs of the abilities that their over priced and over bloated software engulfs. Now on a personal note I failed to understand Microsofts lack of continued development of their paint program included with every version of windows since 3.0,and each time they release a new OS,I keep waiting for them to blow the doors and wow user's when they find Paint.net standard on MS OS's.... Sure legalities could be the reason,but then again the OS is seperate from all other softwares that may be included,so I don't see a problem,does anyone else? Just a thought!