Photoshop in Linux Thanks to Disney

[Cliff Etzel]

eWeek has an interesting article on how Disney got Photoshop to run on Linux - wish it were a native app...

<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1210083,00.asp>

Cliff Etzel
Blue Digital Media

[dennis johnson]

Interesting piece - thanks for the link!

Go Linux!

[nospam]

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^)

R

[Cliff Etzel]

LOL :-D - Good one Robert...

[r_harvey]

I, for one, would like to thank MS for allowing Adobe to stay in business.

[dave milbut]

"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.

[dave milbut]

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.