Let’s stop debating the GnuImp Manipulation Program

The GIMP will never magically become software beloved by artists-not without radically changing its culture, and making the artists the ones who call the shots. The GIMP will remain what it has always set out to be: a tinkerer's toolbox, more concerned with the purity of its software politics than with garnering a loyal userbase of photographers and designers.

But because everyone insisted to poise it as a viable Photoshop killer, Linux is left with an obvious hole in its software offering, a hole nobody managed to fill with their own challenger.

Aria Salvatrice

Excellent article, and spot-on conclusion.