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Re: Jack Germain prays Adobe will make software for Linux too

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Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> writes:

> On 2014-02-25 10:30, RS Wood wrote:
>> From the "gentlemen, start your flamethrowers" department:
>
> :-)
>
>> Title: Dear Adobe: Make Software for Linux Too
>> Author: Jack M. Germain
>> Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 20:27:00 -0500
>> Link:
>> http://ectnews.com.feedsportal.com/c/34520/f/632001/s/3742c790/sc/21/l/0L0Slinuxinsider0N0Cstory0C799990Bhtml0Drss0F1/story01.htm
>> 
>> [image 2][1] What if commercial software developers for popular Windows
>> products sold Linux versions to a waiting market of open source users? Think
>> in terms of paying a subscription fee to use a Linux version of Adobe's
>> Photoshop image manipulation software, for starters. Is porting commercial
>> products like Photoshop as a licensed -- that is, paid -- product for Linux a
>> viable idea?
>
> Not here. I get at least as good results from dcraw and ImageMagick as I
> got from Photoshop.
>
> Leased software for Linux... now there's a collision of worlds.

Yep, I don't think so.  At least not for my use.
Employers LIKE to pay for software though.
Gives them that warm and fuzzy feeling.

-- 
Dan Espen

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Jack Germain prays Adobe will make software for Linux too RS Wood  <rswood@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-25 10:30 +0000
  Re: Jack Germain prays Adobe will make software for Linux too Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> - 2014-02-25 14:08 +0000
    Re: Jack Germain prays Adobe will make software for Linux too Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2014-02-25 09:32 -0500
      Re: Jack Germain prays Adobe will make software for Linux too RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-25 15:34 +0000
        Re: Jack Germain prays Adobe will make software for Linux too Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> - 2014-02-25 20:04 +0000
        Re: Jack Germain prays Adobe will make software for Linux too Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-02-27 15:38 -0800
      Re: Jack Germain prays Adobe will make software for Linux too Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-02-25 21:31 +0000
        Re: Jack Germain prays Adobe will make software for Linux too Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> - 2014-02-26 10:46 +0000
          Re: Jack Germain prays Adobe will make software for Linux too Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-02-27 10:08 +0000

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