To anyone interested in doing 2D animation on linux, I highly recommend TVPaint.<p>It's an incredibly awesome software, the best one available on any platform, and they have a linux version.<p>It is not free/open source, but if you are doing animation it shouldn't matter, you should be choosing the best software available, because animation is expensive and takes a lot of effort, so a superior tool pays for itself very quickly.
I wonder if his devstack wouldn't be a bit more fluent (and independent) with Synfig studio [1].<p>[1] <a href="http://www.synfig.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.synfig.org/</a>
The thought experiment is already possible. However many people that are on the bottom rungs lack motivation to take advantage of these kinds of programs. Many poor and unemployed already have computers but choose to spend their time on Facebook instead of potentially learning to code. Nice thought, but the implementation ignores the fact that many people would rather spend their time watching Judge Judy.