Adobe's View on GIMP

Hello there to everyone.

I want to ask simple, yet a very important question for me.
I'm a happy adobe customer by the way. Although i highly disagree with some of the company's decisions (*cough* *cough*... AdobeFlash and linux.. *cough* *cough*) however i do belive that photoshop DOES deserve its glory and it IS the very best one.. the king.

I want to ask the TEAM of Adobe what is their VIEW on Gimp.
Do you consider this to be a "copy" of photoshop?
Does photoshop see it in any case as a breach of their patents?

Or do you see it as nice independent graphic program that is open-source and yes -- although free it obviously lacks all the premium features and UI of the paid kings like photoshop.

What is your opinion on the matter Adobe?

I searched the google but i was unable to find anything concrete on the subject.

Thank you,
Sincerely,
Dimitar