On Sat, Oct 09, 2010, Marko Vojinovic wrote: ...
I don't believe that profit is the reason why Adobe and others don't offer a Linux version of their products. I would rather say it is incompetence to maintain the code that is portable across OS's. And that says something about the quality of their products and skill level of their programmers, IMNSHO. I think Linux community is actually better off not using any of that crap software, if possible (I wonder why flash player comes to my mind right now...).
I really came to doubt the competence of Adobe's programmers when I tried installing Photoshop Elements on a Mac, but it wouldn't even try to install because I OS X installed on a case-sensitive file system. When I see this, it leads me to believe that they can't even bother for consistency in file/directory names, much less more important things.
If their software had been designed and implemented in a way one would expect from a high-class professional commercial company, they would certainly have next to zero problems porting it to Linux and gaining additional market (no matter how slightly bigger, it's bigger nevertheless, and every buck counts). The fact they don't do it shows that they find it hard to maintain their code for a Linux platform. And that is a consequence of bad design and/or implementation of their software, not lack of market.
See above.
Bill