Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 26th May 2008 17:54 UTC
Ivan Krstic' critique of the One Laptop Per Child Project has made its ripples around the pond of the intertubes. Apart from the obvious part where it criticises a major project from an insider's point of view, it also had a few other remarks that caught people's attention - most notably the admission that despite his ability to do Linux kernel hacking, his main development laptop is a Macintosh running Mac OS X.
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2005-08-29
Adobe isn't going to their graphics suite to Linux. Seriously, they won't do it. Get over it.
I have to admit that's one of the reasons I found Linux desktops not suitable for my daily use. I just couldn't get used to the gimp (that was years ago, not sure if Gimp is a decent challenger today but it still means a lot of re-learning for people who have grown habits).
The adobe suit costs thousands of dollars, so you are only going to pay if you do this as your main job. If you're a casual user, they know piracy is the norm and they don't want to port it to Linux so people can copy it. But if you pay for it you can well shell out another 150$ for a windows license (or get a mac).
I think the only chance for linux to get big in the graphics industry is for some group of devs to manage to build a suite similar to Adobe's using InkSpace, Gimp and others and provide a perfect integration between each of them. But that does require some serious work and maybe the support of a big corporation (à la OpenOffice). And then again graphics are a very slow moving business. Try to send your linux-made graphics to a printshop. They'll always complain that you didn't set some flag when saving your PDF and ask you to resave it with the right options in Illustator...