"...they just want to be able to play with Photoshop because that's The Thing." This is the problem. Marketing is really effective to teenagers as they have no

"...they just want to be able to play with Photoshop because that's The Thing." This is the problem. Marketing is really effective to teenagers as they have not worked out the reality behind the branding yet. So free software gets less feedback and a smaller user base and so it goes... "commercial software is the standard" I'm just hoping that using 'the standard' gets a bit old and being different becomes a bit more popular.