Of course it's a moving target. That's the nature of media. Sadly, it means that open source has yet to identify a target, or set of targets that are forward thinking enough to become a full replacement. To me, that's a very bad thing and all it does is enable people to whine, complain, stay angry yet doesn't empower them at all with a viable solution.

It's been time to innovate, stop emulating. That's what I truly don't like about portions of these open source endeavors. If you emulate what's out today, you're thinking like Microsoft or Adobe 18-24 months (whatever their development cycle may be) ago.

On the other side of things... look at Blender. They actually were going torwards gaming when 3DS Max and Maya weren't fully there yet. They were going towards particles when others insisted on doing that via external apps. The open source community has some bright spots... the fight on Flash is not one of them.

That's the name of competition. So far, there's been none from the open source community.