Why does GIMP rhyme with limp? (Score 1)

I sort of like le GIMP and have done a few little things with it, but if you have to do something high-end quickly. Linux has been a great boon because of its strengths, but anyone who thinks that le GIMP is world-class is not working in the real world of graphic design. Someone else here said it. Can someone point to any graphically advanced site that's been constructed with the GIMP? Most of them have been constructed with Adobe or Macromedia. Well maybe Corel... Hey, they have a Linux version of Draw! Maybe that should be argued about here in opposition to le GIMP. Would a logo in CorelDRAW be okay? Linux really should be a superb graphics platform, but there are always so many device problems connecting with digitizers, plotters, and high-end printers that not many workstations every run much. That's true of SUN's and SGI's where you have to be very careful what you connect. I also think that the open source community will continue to improve le GIMP. It is still a pretty young product. I use vi because it's blitz-fast and powerful. Perl, awk, are my preferred webpage creation tools for volume work. I use Samba and Domino Server for Linux (merci Lotus/IBM). There are great products for Linux that have given it a momentum that goes well beyond LUGdom. Adobe has tried its hand with a version of Framemaker for Linux. It ran well, but was limited to 1 year and will probably cost WAY too much if released. I expect that they will eventually decide to do a Linux version of Photoshop or Illustrator. That would be great. For now, I think whoever is asking for a logo should try to get a really effective logo. At this point, I think Tux is great because it has been around long enough to be recognizable, and people are through marveling at how "home-grown" it looks. In the meantime, Linux has really made enormous headway and established itself as the smart solution for so many serving situations that its future seems very secure. I used to hate Tux, but now Tux has a very different and friendly quality that few operating systems have ever embodied. It has got to infuriate Microsoft that a phenomenon like Linux with such an non-slick and quaint logo could be taking noticeable market share from its low-end server target market. Dropping Tux might actually contribute to succumbing to the same sort of divisiveness that has rendered commercial UNIX more vulnerable to NT, and the real issues in Linux are elsewhere, I suspect. Like what will happen to Netscape after Netscape 6... There's a really troubling open-source development...