[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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