Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 26th Jul 2007 20:31 UTC, submitted by poundsmack
"In his keynote at OSCON, Microsoft General Manager of Platform Strategy Bill Hilf announced that Microsoft is submitting its shared source licenses to the Open Source Initiative. This is a huge, long-awaited move. It will be earthshaking for both Microsoft and for the open source community if the licenses are in fact certified as open source licenses. Microsoft has been releasing a lot of software as shared source (nearly 650 projects, according to Bill). If this is suddenly certified as true open source software, it will be a lot harder to draw a bright line between Microsoft and the open source community." In addition, Microsoft has launched a new website where it details its relationship with open source.
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The complaint was specifically that Adobe must "Hate its customers", because there is no other reason for port, and that hopefully another company that is more customer friendly will start writing adobe product killers.
My counter argument is that if adobe ever does die, it is not for the foreseeable future, as their products are well above the competition, and that it does not make sense to port to linux, due to the very high support costs for a very small market.
After that, a bunch of people pointed out a ton of industry standard CG apps, to which I replied that while there is no market on linux for professional publishing, there is one for CG. This is where I brought up games, as another example of a market that is too small for the industry to really care about. There are plenty of other examples too, like high end sound editing. There is no reasons, or pro tools, or anything even close on the platform, and while there are one or two DAWs in development, it is kind of like comparing the Gimp to Photoshop. Considering that not only is there a very small market, but common kernel configurations for desktop are completely unacceptable for sound work, that will not change any time soon. What about stuff like Quark? I guess apple hates its customers too, because even an open source friendly company like them will not port. What about word processors? Sure, MS hates its customers,we can all buy that, but where is Corel Office X3 for linux?