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Adobe is the monopoly in the desktop graphics tool market. Not sure why no VC targets it at this moment, which does seem like a slow dinosaur to attack on.

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"Once open-source gets good enough, you'd be crazy to compete with it." -Larry Ellison

Any startup that sets out to recreate Photoshop would also compete with GIMP and Pixelmator.

Pixelmator's proprietary, and can't run on non OS X ATM due to reliance on, IIRC, CoreGraphics or similar. If they recreated those libraries on other platforms they may have a PS competitor.

GIMP is poor quality.

Patents.

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