E wrote:
| Alucard wrote:
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|| Adobe already tried a Solaris port of PhotoShop and it did not
|| sell.at all. Unlikely there will be a Linux build especially since
|| PhotoShop runs well under Wine.
|
| Thats a shame. Maybe Adobe will give it another shot if they see
| Linux or FreeBSD on AMD gaining momentum.

The problem might be that most users of open source Op Systems, like Linux
and FreeBSD, are used to getting their application software under a similar
arrangement. There might not be much money to be made from commercial
applications competing head-on with open-source equivalents like The Gimp.
Would Microsoft ever do a Linux version of office to face Sun's Star Office
? Probably not !
API bridges, like WINE, enable you to run well written Windoze
applications under Linux so there's even less incentive.
Drivers and utility programs are a different matter, though. Quite a
number of hardware namufacturers are drivers for Linux, BeOS and FreeBSD as
well as different versions of Windoze. If they didn't, they'd run the risk
of losing out on a growing market share.
I don't think there is much profit made out of drivers, though.
Kevin.