Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 21st Aug 2008 16:16 UTC, submitted by jcornuz
Graphics and photography have been Apple's chasse gardee for years but for quite some time, MS Windows is on par with the Mac and the system of choice for photographers boils down to personal preferences more than anything else. But what about Linux? "My goal with this entry is to brush a big picture of where Linux stands as far as photography is concerned," Joel Cornuz explains, "What are the achievements, where improvements are needed and being worked on, and which pieces are still missing."
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But I think Adobe is not that clever.
But you're ignoring the main advantage which Adobe has over other products on the market - Adobe has the whole work flow of products under the one roof. From photo editing to website and content creation - and everything in between; it is a formidable package. Simply porting one piece of software will not help in the slightest. It would be like getting sold a car and when it arrives - all you have are 4 wheels.
What there needs to be is an eccentric billionaire who can dedicate $2billion to re-creating the whole Adobe chain of products using Qt. This is why Quark has continued to loose its position in the market; the failure to realise that no one *cares* about purchasing one application from one vendor, and then pray that all 5 different titles from five different vendors will hopefully work together. People want a completely integrated solution from the top downwards.
Personally, I think that the open source world could do a lot better job than Adobe if it got its act together. For example, why not have one common engine sitting at the core of a whole line of products? a set of core libraries on which products can be built - taking the parts of each library that are relevant to the given application and implement them. It would reduce to the over lap between different applications and ensure a consistent presentation each step along the way.