[Desktop_architects] Applications and pre-installed machines
Jeremy White
jwhite at codeweavers.com
Thu Jan 19 14:28:07 PST 2006
Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 January 2006 11:14, Brooks, Phil wrote:
>
>>It would be a lot easier to convince Adobe to do a Linux port if they
>>thought the could get incremental revenue from animation artists doing
>>work on Linux render farms.
>
>
> didn't Disney pay to get WINE running Photoshop? so without doing a port Adobe
> is likely reaching a good % of the market who would purchase a Linux-native
> port today, and all the while "photoshop doesn't run on linux". the best of
> all worlds when it comes to dissincentivation! ;)
Yes, Disney did, along with the other animation studios.
That actually served to get Adobe's attention; it was not at all a disincentive.
What *was* a disincentive was that when Adobe went
to gauge the market demand for Photoshop on Linux,
the result was not compelling.
Cheers,
Jeremy
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