[Desktop_architects] The reason Adobe does not want to port Photoshop?

[Tim Beaulen]

On 10/12/06, Jeremy White <jwhite at codeweavers.com> wrote:
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>
> But my summary was this:
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>   It takes a lot of hard work to create a Desktop product for Linux


It doesn't and it has been proven a dozen of times.
Of course, if you expect the full blown professional version of Photoshop to
be ported in under a year, you are very naive.
How long did it take to create the windows and mac version? A few months? I
don't think so.

Creating good software takes a lot of hard work on any platform.

  The Linux Desktop Market, such as it is, is tiny


Not that tiny to never have any sales.
But at the moment it might be that the develoment costs outweight the
possible sales, that's true.

  Even worse, that market is highly fragmented
>     (Yes, it really does matter to an ISV that there is
>     Ubuntu, Red Hat, SuSE, and on and on; yes, they are
>     'close', but this isn't horseshoes).


No it does not matter.
You just supply the third party libraries with your package or you tell the
user what he/she needs to have.
How is this done on Windows or Mac? Is everything they need installed
already? I don't think so.

  It's virtually impossible to do a credible QA job
>     on a Linux Desktop product, because there are too many
>     different configurations of Linux 'in the wild'.


Good software developers can deal with this and I'm sure Adobe will be able
to do so.

  Similarly, it's very difficult to provide credible customer
>     support to the Linux Desktop market.


Because of the different systems?
How many different Windows systems are there? 2? 3? Thousands?

  And all that for a market full of people who would really rather
>     your product was Free, and in the final analysis, are rather
>     reluctant to part with cold, hard, cash.


Ohh come on. That is just not true.




What does strike me is that Chris (from Adobe) clearly insults developers
working on Linux.
Maybe he had to deal with some conflicts about Linux in the past and that
might have turned him against Linux.
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