On 05/09/2013 05:43 PM, Antonio Roberts wrote: >> Maybe this is a bit off place, but: isn't this the perfect time to release >> a campaing like the one did by OpenShot > Canonical once tried offering a bounty to people to try and make GIMP > better. It didn't work. The point there is that, although very useful, > money doesn't solve everything. In the case of a lot of open source > software what is needed is developers, and disgruntled ex-Adobe users > flocking to Scribus does not necessarily equal more developers. > > As Alexandre suggested, Adobe are still making a lot of money and even > stated that a lot of users had already subscribed to the Creative > Cloud prior to it becoming the standard. > > As I understand it, Adobe will still sell software, but without updates, as an alternative to this subscription plan, though one wouldn't be surprised that this might be temporary.
Greg
