Posted by Travis Newbury on 04/10/07 12:05

On Apr 10, 6:36 am, Toby A Inkster <usenet200...@tobyinkster.co.uk>
wrote:
> Travis Newbury wrote:
> > Yea, I can feel your (and the other 12 BSD users) pain.... How dare
> > Adobe not support your OS...
> Arguably BSD is the most used operating system after Windows. Darwin,
> which forms the core of Mac OS X, is a flavour of BSD.

Since Adobe Flash supports OSX, I guess it could be said that it does
in fact support some flavors of BSD?

This brings me to one of the issues I have with moving to a *NIX
platform. ESPECIALLY one of the free open source ones. Since software
compiled on one flavor/brand of *NIX does not neseccerally run on a
different flavor/brand How in the world can you expect companies like
Adobe to support every flavor and brand of an OS? It is jst not cost
effective for them to do so. They have to look at the market place,
and decide which OSs have the best bang for the buck, and they support
those.

Not to pick on Adobe, but if you are an Adobe Photoshop fan and run
LINUX, you are shit out of luck (I believe they have stopped
supporting most flavors of *NIX since version 3 or so?) Adobe decided
that if you are going to buy their mega$$$ software, then you either
already own a computer it will run on, or you can afford to buy
one.

Their decision to do this does not seem to have hurt their standing in
the imaging industry. On the other side of the coin, they have decided
that supporting several flavors of *NIX with their Flash player is
worth it. I am sure they have statistics and marketing experts locked
away in a small room making decisions about what OS to support with
what application. And based on their standing in the industry, they
seem to be making some good decisions. (YMMV)

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