Is Canonical Becoming The New Microsoft?

[Manish Sinha]

Bill Cairns wrote:
> On the other hand Gimp is a specialist tool and i doubt that 1 out of
> 20 Ubuntu users ever uses it. Someone who needs the Gimp will know how
> to install it.
>   

1 in 20? Probably 1 in 50 if you look all over.
People should cry only when Gimp is kicked from from the official repos.
Removing GIMP will save a lot of disk space.

> I use Thunderbird, Celestia, Backgammon, Open Song, Xmind, Geany,
> Idle, Mplayer ... and don't complain that they are not on the release
> CD.
>   

Neither do I. I don't use many default apps. Does this mean I should cry 
and shout and scream?
Then what is the solution?
Solution: *apt-get*