[thelist] cheap software spam - how do they do it?

[James Conley]

I downloaded Paint.Net a couple of weeks ago and was pleasantly
surprised to see what it could do.
To me [a very novice graphic program user] it was more user friendly
than GIMP. Again - being just a novice in graphic programs - it would be
easy to convince me that GIMP was far more powerful than Paint.Net.

I tried Open Office and while it was powerful and awesome considering
the price I reverted back to MS Office. I like it 
better. :(

James c
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On the other hand, going back to the original thread topic, graphic
design tools in Open Source /do/ seem to lack somewhat, the GIMP being
the shining exception.  But AFAIK there is no OS equivalent of
Illustrator (or Freehand), Flash, or even of Fireworks. Adobe-Macromedia
really have this area in their pockets. :)