Digital Image Studio a écrit : > On 28/01/07, Patrice LACOUTURE (GMail) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> <advocacy mode against microsoft plot to conquer the world> >> >> This behaviour is a microsoft feature to force you and your web provider >> to upgrade the server software to be compatible with IE7, and in the >> process become incompatible with IE 6, then force more people to upgrade >> to IE7, then to Vista, then buy a new PC because Vista is Too Slow, >> which is mandatorily bundled with a new copy of Vista again, then >> migrate to the new Office version because they like the new Vista eye >> candy so much that they also want the new Office eye candy, then force >> everyone to migrate to the new Office to be able to read each other's >> new Office documents... you get the point. >> >> I chose to stick with good old Firefox, Thunderbird and OpenOffice for >> now, keep my old PC etc... and still have friends. >> </advocacy mode> >> > > LOL, I'm a Firefox convert for all the reasons you state. But what > really gets up my nose is that Adobe is jumping on the bandwagon too, > XP or Vista for CS3 (yes I've heard the arguments why XP/Vista is > required, it still sounds more like justification to extricate more > cash) :-( > Well, while MS has a clear interest in everyone changing for a new PC every 18 month, because it's virtually impossible to buy a PC without paying the "Microsoft Tax", I'm not sure Adobe has any. After all, they can't coerce you into buying a new copy of PS with every PC, not yet!
So maybe they just want to make best use of new hardware and OS neat features, to stay on the edge, and they know that users will buy these new hardware anyway (and of course OS, no way around it), because everybody claims so loud that you need Vista that, well, it must be true. I could be very happy with just an Ubuntu box, if Adobe supported that, as well a a few other software and hardware vendors (but not MS). Big companies with big bucks have an interest in supporting some large and expensive free software projects (Linux, Apache, OpenOffice, Java, Mozilla among others), but so far it seems that noone with big bucks has a business model that involves supporting The Gimp up to PS level... Too bad. Patrice -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
