On Sun, 2007-08-05 at 11:41 -0700, Mario Goebbels wrote: > > Regarding GIMP, 2.4 will apparently take more of a > > "Photoshop look" - > > but ultimately the only real possibility is for Sun > > to work with wine > > and improve Windows compatibility - Adobe has flat > > out refused to > > support Sun and Solaris. There is very little Sun can > > do when Adobe is > > unwilling to play ball. > > Is this a "There's no business case" refusal or a "Duh, you SUCK!" > refusal? Just wondering, because software politics become pretty > stupid at times. After all, we finally got Flash 9.
Flash was supplied via an agreement with Macromedia - Adobe merely held up the original agreement. I doubt very much that Adobe would have created a Flashplayer for Solaris given Adobes refusal to provide Acrobat for Solaris - even after Sun offered to pay for the porting of it to Solaris x86. If Sun really wanted to 'punish' Adobe for their arrogance, create a great tool to create JavaFX content that allow creative types (aka non-programmers) to create easier and quicker than they could have with Adobe Flash. If Sun can really harm Adobes web side of the business then it'll put them on the back foot - for me, I have no love for Adobe, they're in the same boat of 'scum sucking roaches' as Microsoft. Matthew _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
