Hmmm... if his perspective really is anti-oss, well it sucks for him that I didn't read that paragraph. I could care less when it comes to anonymous surveys and what they use them for... so I skipped all the "wordy" junk at the beginning and just filled it out truthfully.

Honestly, if he is anti-OSS, I find this to be a bizarre place to ask. It's almost like going to a church and asking people if they believe in God or not. They're probably there for a reason. :)

-Josh

It would be more accurate to say that he went into a church, and asked people to fill out a survey that hopes to prove that there is no God.

The survey is terribly written: it doesn't account for individual graphic artist work against a set team of graphical developers. I do not know of an Open-Source equivalent to Adobe bridge (which I haven't used in a multi-user environment), so I suppose a point can be made against OSS provisions for large-scale work (e.g. vector design -> color/texture providers -> layout implementation -> content management of some sort) at present. However, for single-man jobs, it has been me experience with OSS user base that they are, quite simply, more aware of extended abilities of the software toolset in their disposal than most users of "well locked up" proprietary stuff.

Naturally, the preceeding argument is made about college kids doing web-design. When it comes to digital artists of highest caliber, there is no question that their experitise would be honorable regardless of which package they choose for themselves.

I'm definitely interested in seeing the results of the survey, mostly due to the fact that no single good conclusion can come out of it. The "practical exercise" section of the questionaire is a complete joke that ought to take less than 30 seconds to finish INCLUDING the loading times of GIMP splash screen and initial "deep thought" phase of Inkscape.

Last question: am I the only one of the opinion that most if not all OSS, graphic or not, has better documentation given out for free than most of the fancy (read: expensive) packages provide for extra dough?

-ilya.