XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: ahlstromc@xzoozy.com   
      
   Lawrence D'Oliveiro pulled this Usenet face plant:   
      
   > In message , Snit wrote:   
   >   
   >> But there are also counter examples where OSS has not been able to produce   
   >> software that matches the closed source alternatives:   
   >>   
   >> * Photoshop (and the rest of the creative suite)   
   >   
   > Ah, the perennial example that everybody cites, but no one has actually   
   > used.   
   >   
   > Hands up all those with a legitimate, licensed copy of Photoshop...   
      
   Not me.  I can buy a nice quad-core 64-bit server system and put Linux on   
   it, for the price of Photoshop.   
      
   The GIMP covers my graphics needs, non-publisher that I am.   
      
   --   
   [regarding measures to prevent cheating in quake]   
   I mean, as long as I can make my rocket launcher look like a big twinkie,   
   I'll be happy ;)   
   		-- Qeyser    
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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