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Good for Blender to get Supported from Adobe for it's development. I believe that Blender will become more awesome from this sponsorship.

> ensure the longevity and success of this dynamic open-source community

Nice. But, Can you(Adobe) please also make Photoshop and other Adobe products available on Linux as well ? It would really benefit Open Source community.

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> Can you(Adobe) please also make Photoshop and other Adobe products available on Linux as well ? It would really benefit Open Source community.

How would it benefit the open source community? They would be proprietary binaries, likely only on one architecture.

More people switch to Linux, gaining developer attention, in turn more developers support their software for Linux.

Proprietary software or free/open source software?

I don't see how more proprietary software is something the open source community wants.

Assume for a moment that people are going to want to run the proprietary applications either way. Would you rather that they run proprietary applications on a proprietary operating system, or that they run proprietary applications on an open source operating system?

We're in a world where most people predominantly use proprietary software on proprietary operating systems. Many people are tied to those platforms because key parts of their workflows keep them from migrating - in this case, people who use Adobe's tools as their daily drivers would have a hard time moving to Linux.

If Adobe made their software available on Linux, that would allow many people to migrate, which would in turn help expose those people to lots of other F/OSS software, which would then build up their userbase over time.

None of this would happen instantaneously, of course, but there's a precedent for this sort of "small" change causing large shifts. For example, OS X having a unix foundation was the trigger for the gradual (but eventually large-scale) move of software developers towards macs.

Linux user since somewhere around 2001 - 2003 here:

I use a mix of proprietary and free software at any time.

I guess most Linux users are like me: using it mainly because (for me) it provides a superior experience all the way from installation, through painless maintenance, fantastic desktop usability (for me) and extremely much better performance.

The last one is worth emphasizing:

1. the compiles are relevant for me are consistently around 30% faster on Linux

2. starting executables (and this includes git) is so much faster that using anything else afterwards feels just dumb.

In theory, more people with artistic and multimedia jobs would be able and/or willing to use Linux.

In practice, I perceive some (highly deserved) sarcasm towards Adobe.

A lot of people won't switch to Linux for specifically these programs as they use them in their daily lives or for work. Just availability would promote the growth of Linux and while not 100% supporting open source in a purist sense it would be a welcome way for normal users to get their feet wet.

The classic Adobe applications (Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects) are likely third party encumbered in such a way that a Linux build is all but impossible. I can only imagine the amount of binary crap 20 years out of support that has gone into it over the years.

I'm of a different persuasion: better to not have Adobe software on Linux. It'll give a bit more space for alternatives (as it's already doing), and Cthulhu knows we need that. It's not perfect, but it's a start.

Adobe needs to go away.

More likely Adobe don't want to do the Linux because they would need to have a support department for Linux, it is more money for them to pay the employees to provide technical support for Linux.

Keep in mind, Photoshop been around more than 30 years. They likely to have legacy codes in the software that can turn ugly in Linux. PS have a behemoth codebase, it will take them a while... a long while to port to Linux along with the plugins and everything else.

Plus can you imagine doing all the work to port it, only to remember that CS6 has received between a silver and gold rating using Wine? :-)

https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iI...

I think they should partner with Gog and offer legacy Adobe tools...relive the good old days of pre-cloud Adobe.

I'd prefer they contribute to gimp.

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