I use Gimp professionally daily. For all kinds of web work, fliers, biz cards, posters... The only thing I miss from photoshop is cmyk and the heal brush.

I would say under that metric there is Linux, Firefox, VLC, Bsnes, Dolphin (Wii Emu), Pidgin, SumatraPDF, Filezilla, Blender.... The rest of the FOSS world has some way to go.

I'd say there are a few that are getting close: Gimp, Ardour, Libre Office, OpenShot.....

The bummer is how many FOSS games are just not good enough. It's the year 2012, and there's STILL not a better FOSS Civ 2 than the original Civ 2. Almost all of the best emulators are FOSS though, so.....

Also disappointing is the audio apps. Winamp 2.81 is still the best on Windows. Audacious is good on Linux, but there's no Windows version, so.....

Dumb argument anyway. I have TONS of clients that are moving to LO. Big stodgy corporate clients, too.

...Yet another reason to log out of the US.

to replace all the members of government and the corporations that run them. This is sickening and an egregious affront to the constitution and even more so to the spirit of liberty that bore the constitution.

17 others?!?! You slut!

THIS. None of the rest of the chatter really influences anything at all. If it has power and can last all day, this might mean something. Otherwise....

He's all for civil liberty, and at this time, that is certainly what us geeks should be fighting for.

All that racist and homophobic talk is just nonsense. He's for EVERYONE'S civil liberties, and he's honest and reliable.

If you think any other candidate has any merit at all your are on Quaaludes. Unless you mention Buddy Roemer, who doesn't have a chance at all!

Ron Paul 2012. Or continue our slide into abject fascism.

Solar is clearly the way forward. We've made HUGE advances in the last few decades!

... you will be indefinitely detained....

Linux Mint 11 offers a superior experience to any Apple or Microsoft product. Period.

Not that that has anything to do with tablets, but Linux has a better interface than any Windows or Mac machine could ever hope to in the form of Gnome 2 as done by Linux Mint 11 (and 10, and 9, and 8, and......).

We're going to need an alternative to reality if SOPA passes. I for one welcome our new Maoist overlords.

This. And of course the many great improvements on Android that already exist in the wild, like cyanogenmod. I probably will never buy another phone not capable of running cyanogenmod.

As an atheist I find fundamentalist regimes disgusting, but let's face it: The US is essentially an exact replica of Nazi Germany now, so, I'm kinda glad other countries are downing our drones.

The reality is, if you're using a drone, you're a fucking coward anyway. People call the alleged terrorists who allegedly flew planes into the twin towers cowards, but in reality a kamikaze suicide run takes some serious cajones (I don't believe the official version for a second, and I also don't think cajones is all that it takes to earn respect. As an atheist, if they really were fundamentalist terrorists (And I'm not talking about Bush/Cheney, who probably actually DID perpetrate the attack), they are still a bunch of imbeciles, cajones or not). Launching glorified RC rockets at targets thousands of miles away? That's the very definition of cowardice. I'm completely ashamed to be an American.

Stop the drones, and stop the NDAA, and MAYBE our country will have some credibility again. Until then, we're just pathetic, fat, cowardly bullies.