Dave Neary wrote: > Yuval: I'll leave this first step (the list of companies) as an exercise > for you ;-)
Deal. And you try to figure who to contact at those companies, Dave? SONY (think Linux on PS3 and the hype it is getting, + their digital imaging division). Nikon, Canon - although top tier imaging equipment makers tend to be rather proprietary/secretive. We might get more lucky with the up and coming - LG, Samsung - but they are so big we'll probably end up in the microwave or freezer for a few months before finding the way to the right department. Olympus, Pentax, etc. - plenty of good quality hardware that does benefit from digital imaging FOSS and could probably benefit even more with a little bit of awareness work. <http://www.dpreview.com/> belongs to Amazon now. It is a small business very successful at reviewing them all, and may (or may not) help us get in touch. Mail sent, to get in touch through a third party, you're cc: > Yuval Levy wrote: >> take that "Linux" away. compromise. Graphic apps are the most desired >> apps, full stop. > > This is not true though. The most used application on the desktop, by a > mile, is the web browser. Followed by an email client. Followed by > (depending on your age) games or word processing software. *desired* =/= used. desire: situation of wanting something that does not yet exist. use: implies something that already exists. you are right, and I am right too :-) web browsers and email clients are freely and widely available. I am back in Windows today, and I am using the same Firefox and Thunderbird as I did yesterday on Linux. word processing is the same. While graphics apps have made giant strides forward, there are still areas where there are no real alternatives. > Very few people, when asked what they do with a computer, actually do > any graphics work. but they all love the powerpoint templates and the cms, thus indirectly using "create" output. > And yet, when you ask people considering adopting Linux on the desktop > what apps they miss most, they say "Photoshop", "Illustrator", "Visio". desire vs. use :-) > Personally, I would invite Adobe > if they started releasing some of their graphics applications as free > software. we'll leave that one for a future interaction ;-) - the divide is still too large to be bridged. I believe that bridging it will be beneficial to *everybody*. Anyway, for as much as I can help, that's it. Plus <http://panospace.wordpress.com/2008/03/13/conference/> Yuv _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
