Re:A Thank-You Note to the Hacker News Community from Ubuntu
by DoofusOfDeath on Friday April 07, 2017 @08:43AM
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Thanks for chiming in!
> The best thing that Canonical can do, and indeed what we are doing now, is to provide stable platform for Adobe to target and the tools to make it as easy as possible for them to do that.
There's one more thing which you guys can perhaps do that the rest of us cannot:
Canonical is well-enough known that you may be able to get a meeting with someone at Adobe, to find out what they think would convince them to pilot a Ubuntu-compatible release of CS (or at least Photoshop and Lightroom).
I assume that it's some combination of projected sales revenue, and ease porting / maintenance / support.
If someone (perhaps Canonical) can get Adobe to throw out a number regarding how much sales revenue they'd need for a port, we could use something like Kickstarter to line up the first round of purchasers as well as demonstrate the amount of (pent up) demand.
> The best thing that Canonical can do, and indeed what we are doing now, is to provide stable platform for Adobe to target and the tools to make it as easy as possible for them to do that.
There's one more thing which you guys can perhaps do that the rest of us cannot:
Canonical is well-enough known that you may be able to get a meeting with someone at Adobe, to find out what they think would convince them to pilot a Ubuntu-compatible release of CS (or at least Photoshop and Lightroom).
I assume that it's some combination of projected sales revenue, and ease porting / maintenance / support.
If someone (perhaps Canonical) can get Adobe to throw out a number regarding how much sales revenue they'd need for a port, we could use something like Kickstarter to line up the first round of purchasers as well as demonstrate the amount of (pent up) demand.