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The point was, there's no such thing as a free lunch. Someone is paying one way or the other. Comparing a few volunteers to trillion dollar organizations or VC projects is a little silly, is it not?

Not to mention "modern design" is often worse in a number of ways.

Inkscape is an incredible achievement with the amount of resources it has had available. If you can do better, do so. I'm willing to bet a comparable program is 1000x more work than you anticipate.

This poster gets it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31406310



There is such a thing as a FOSS lunch, though :) And I think its allowed to discuss the fact that todays lunch seems salty.


If you've got constructive criticism, by all means. Offer only a misunderstood use case, don't expect to be indulged.




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