[Desktop_architects] Applications and pre-installed machines
Martin Konold
konold at kde.org
Mon Jan 23 16:38:33 PST 2006
Am Mittwoch, 18. Januar 2006 02:30 schrieb Aaron J. Seigo:
Hi Aaron,
> to be honest, i'm not holding my breath. by the time Adobe, et al, wake up
> Krita, Inscape, Scribus, KPDF, etc... may be so good that people will laugh
> at purchasing Adobe products on linux. that's something that Adobe and
> friends really ought to be thinking about.
This is actually what happend to Nero and k3b.
Nero a leading CD/DVD writing application on Windows came to the Linux Desktop
market a little bit too late and consequently failed.
From
http://applications.linux.com/article.pl?sid=05/03/31/2136203&tid=13&tid=47&tid=49
"Why anyone would bother with Nero when a much superior product, K3b, does it
faster, better, and is fully GPL'd, is beyond me."
I expect the same will happen for Adobe acrobat in the next 12 to 24 months.
Regards,
-- martin
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