Interesting piece – thanks for the link!
Go Linux!
The only place Linux is going for the consumer in to the trash bin.
Go Microsoft. All hale Microsoft. Bow, kneel to our god Bill Gates! Oh wait, wrong temple! 8^)
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I, for one, would like to thank MS for allowing Adobe to stay in business.
"It’s been a win-win model to have someone else provide added value to an open-source product," Brooks said. "I didn’t have the resources to chase that project internally. This way, the open-source community got the product, and we got what we needed cheaper than we could have done it ourselves."
actually it’s win-win-win, because adobe didn’t have to port to linix and they’re still able to sell licenses in that space.
Photoshop has performed well on Red Hat, Brooks said. Saving files is faster on Linux than on Mac OS machines also running Photoshop, he said.
Brooks said it took some time to convince Disney attorneys that he wanted to pay for the development of the porting solution but did not want to own it. However, Disney’s legal department has developed a policy that enables Disney to protect its intellectual property while keeping within the statutes of the GNU General Public License, he said.
this is also good news, but i’m thinking adobe better start thinking hard about going native if it wants to keep this segment (animation artists):
Although Brooks considered and even tried to use several open-source alternatives, including GIMP, or GNU Image Manipulation Program (see related story), and Cinepaint (formerly FilmGimp), he said he ran into performance issues with the two programs. Artists also found the open-source programs less intuitive to use than Photoshop.
And while Photoshop is the program of choice among Disney’s artist base, Disney is keeping an eye on Cinepaint and is even using the program in a few cases, Brooks said.
"There’s this whole artistic community built around Photoshop, and we couldn’t easily move these people to free alternatives," Brooks said. "[But] we hope [Cinepaint] will get to the point where we can use it for more tasks."
they (animation artists, again) may not be a huge community, but they’re among the highest profile.
