On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 10:47 +1200, Jason Greenwood wrote: > In my experience they deserve each other. Yes, but poor Altsys does not deserve Adobe. They didn't like Adobe. That is why they sold FreeHand to Macromedia after Aldus was purchased by Adobe. But in the end Adobe got the remains of Altsysâ
> They also are both extremely arrogant companies that don't give a > meaningful toss about Linux Why should they? Both are makers of user-oriented software, rather than server-oriented software, and Linux does not matter a toss in that market. Sad but true. Yes, it is a chicken and the egg situation â PageMaker does not run under Linux so there are no PageMaker users on Linux â but the fact remains: they are not there. Both companies do give away a fair bit Linux: Acrobat Reader, Flash, some code [1], and file specifications [2]. My prediction is that you will see Dreamweaver for Linux in the not-too-distant future, as Web developers *do* use Linux, even if DTP users don'tâ > they've said as much at the conferences I've been to. Maybe this > consolidation will change things? The consolidation will not change things. People using Linux will change things :) [1] http://opensource.adobe.com/ [2] http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/ps/index_specs.html http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/pdf/index_reference.html -- Michael JasonSmith http://www.ldots.org/
