>> The Application is only available for Windows, Mac OS, SPARC Solaris
>> and
>> Irix. If you would like this to change, email Adobe. You have to
>> actually be willing to _pay_ for the software, though.
>> budgeted a
>> like amount this year! You are being willfully snide here and the
>> implication
>> s that everybody on this list must be some kind of "hacker/punk" that
>> doesn't
>> ever buy anything other than the bandwidth required to access their
>> favorite
>> Warez ftp hole!
> Actually I think he was reffering to the fact that almost all software
> for linux is free, not everyone is some "hacker".
That's right - thank you very much. You have to concede the fact that a
large number of Linux users don't ever purchase any third-party
software; most, if not all, of what's on their hard drives is free.
This is a good thing. But it also creates the "hacker/punk"
stereotype. And no, I've never regarded Linux or Linux users this way.
Linux users are smart people who are looking for a _better_ and less
expensive alternative to the other mainstream operating systems and even
other versions of UNIX. I look at Linux as a free version of UNIX with
less third-party software. But if you want companies like Adobe to make
versions of their products for Linux, you have to convince them
(somehow) that you, and a _lot_ of other people, are willing to pay for
it. Since Linux began as a project where no one had to buy anything
(except the hardware), this will be hard to do.
I would also like to suggest something else. It is possible that once a
person or a company is ready to buy all of this commercial software,
they might just spend the extra money to get commercial UNIX
workstations from either Sun, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Silicon Graphics,
etc. This way they will get phone-in technical support to make sure all
those nice applications stay running. So this way, there might not be
enough users in the Linux community ready to buy this software to
actually justify the expense of porting the software. But I'm just
being objective. I'd love to have this hypothesis proved incorrect. We
could take the results to Adobe.
And why the heck am I always focusing on Adobe? I'd like to see Alias |
Wavefront's products ported to Linux (currently, I think their products
run only on IRIX and AIX), as well as Softimage and QuarkXPress. That
would be nice.
I apologize for any possible offenses.
Regards,
Matthew Woodbridge
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