All said, the bottomline is, I cannot afford Maya at home and they don't have a free PLE (Personal Learning Edition) for Linux platform, as they do for the Windows platform! And I love to work on Maya as long as you don't have an application with the comparable workflow! And I, the user, will decide whether an application's workflow is comparable, inferior or superior to another application (of course, i'll give you valuable feedback because I *want* and *love* to use FOSS apps more than Closed ones!) Do you have a solution for me??
Oh i forgot, same for Photoshop and ditto for Flash (there's no OSS i could find that gives me the ability to create .swf files like Flash does!)