Quote Originally Posted by ss-kalm View Post
If more people supported open source, then the good folks at Caligari wouldn't have had jobs in the first place ........
Yeah, I can't see that happening to such a degree generally... but it would be nice to see some firm competition threatening some of the bigger companies...
Linux never really seriously hurt Microsoft but I'm sure the whole concept of open source (when duly supported) raises the bar and does create many interesting additional avenues.

For this reason projects like Inkscape always catch my eye but I don't see that threatening Xara any time soon (for example)....
But my opinion on that is that inkscape is too tightly tethered to the .svg spec (i realize this is the whole point of inkscape) but i also feel bottlenecks in this spec are what is really holding inkscape back (from my perspective). And who knows, if that is spruced up big-time serious competition could eventually result...

But getting back to the point, the kind of competition open source could potentially unleash on Xara for example would not in my view (even in a worst case senero for Xara) be enough to harm Xara but rather it would force them to shake, rattle and roll.
And in the end would probably be a good thing all round.