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Adobe Forming a Linux Strategy?

Posted by timothy on from the bet-hedging dept.

rocketjam writes "According to cnet, Adobe Systems, the 800-pound gorilla of commercial graphics software is looking to become more involved with desktop Linux. The company has recently posted two new jobs, one for a director of Linux market development to 'identify and evaluate strategies for Adobe in the Linux and open-source desktop market', and one for a senior computer scientist who will 'become maintainer and/or architect for one or more Adobe-sponsored open-source projects.' Additionally, Adobe has joined the Open Source Development Labs and is active in the desktop Linux working group. A company spokesman said they are not currently looking to port any of their flagship products such as Photoshop to Linux yet, as they currently don't see sufficient numbers in the platform to make a good business case for it."

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  1. Re:acroread is here already by DAldredge · · Score: 4, Informative

    The newest version of Acrobat Reader is not available for linux. Only the last version is.

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    I fell for the parent's trick yesterday. If you click the links your browser window will reduce to a smaller size and bounce around the screen, and an audio clip will play saying "I'm looking at gay porno", and because your browser window is dancing around it's hard to close. Really, it's a pretty nicely crafted troll. But a troll nonetheless.

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  3. WTF? by k98sven · · Score: 4, Informative

    Most viable project that Adobe can open source is Postscript above all else.

    How is postscript not open? Adobe provides full specifications available to anyone to implement it. Completely royalty free and without patent encumbrance.

    Postscript is not a end product thus no real self threat

    Wrong. Postscript is a product. Who makes the embedded PS systems for the millions of PS printers out there, eh?

    it can however very much gain a large programmer pool and a good image.

    It already has these things. Have you been living under a rock since 1985 when Postscript language specifications and reference manual (AKA 'the blue-book' and 'the red-book')

    Their image currently is one of being very hostile towards the community.

    In your mind perhaps.