Is there is any point, which shows that Adobe with make their products for Linux OS?
Monday, May 3rd, 2010 at
16:26
If yes then please include sources.
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For Adobe to do this, there needs to be a financial incentive. If it takes Adobe a year to develop a Linux version, that means an investment of manpower and material. Over a year, this could easily cost $500,000. They need to believe they can get this money back through sales. Right now, they don’t see the demand. If a Linux version was sold with no packaging, just an Internet download, they would have to generate 715 full version (not upgrade or educational discounts) purchases to break even at the $500,000 number I just pulled out of my butt – it could be higher. I don’t know.
If you believe Adobe has a market for a Linux version of the Creative Suite line, I suggest you organize Linux uses into a large enough group to get Adobe’s attention. Since a lot of people that "commit" to buying a future version will back out if it came to fruition, you will need to have several thousand Linux users committed to buying a Linux version before adobe will sit up and take heed.
No. Adobe has for years had Unix versions of their programs available however since these include source code the cost of a license is incredibly expensive.
One of the really sad (and stupid) things going on right now, is that a lot of supposedly reputable companies are downloading and installing illegal copies of Red Hat — when they could be installing perfectly legal and binary compatible versions of CentOS or White Box which are free. We are just not getting respect for Intellectual Property in the Linux Community (outside of some of the hard core developers — and by them I mean the guys who walk around saying "Use only open source among others). Adobe has to pay license fees for commercial printing standards (codecs) among other things as well as the usual programmers and others and this Linux Community has not been supportive of them. Even Corporate Clients seem to be confused about the difference between free software and free beer. Don’t look for Native Linux versions soon.
There are only two adobe programs in Linux, Acrobat reader and Adobe flash player which is installed in Ubuntu synaptic program manager by installing Ubuntu Restricted. I am not aware of any other programs. Other Linux distributions may install these in a different way.