Gimp

Most people probably have heard of Gimp, if not I'll fill you in. Gimp is a free Graphics manipulation program that many people, myself included, compare to Photoshop, except of course Gimp is free and open-source.

Well for some reason my install of Gimp got corrupted, well just script-fu but that basically means the entire thing is shot since all the actions are script based, so I went and downloaded a new copy from their site. They have a windows and linux install, which is really nice. When i was on Source Forge downloading it I noticed that there was an option to view the stats about this project. Gimp is downloaded approx 40,000 times Per DAY! That's crazy. But Wow.

Inkscape, a free opne-source vector drawing program which is also really awesome, gets downloaded a measly 5,500 times a day, approx. The currently most active project on Source Forge, which is Azureus a Bit Torrent client, is downloaded, on average, over 70,000 times a DAY!

That is allot of daily downloads, but it just goes to show you that people are using these programs.