At 11:47 PM -0500 7/23/01, measl@mfn.org wrote:
On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Tim May wrote:
Adobe will be suffering for a long time to come.
While it is a consummation devoutly to be wished, I predict that the "backlash" will be gone in a mere matter of weeks, if not days. Let's face it: the people most likely to be Adobe *customers* are anything but hungry. A fat customer is an apathetic customer...
Let us also be honest and admit that the very people Adobe products target are also the least likely to understand this whole thing, and often even less likely to care--or if they do, they might even agree with Adobe. After all, they are (mostly) content producers (Illustrator, Photoshop etc) who have intellectual property interests themselves. Let's face it, many if not most of the Free Software types are going to use The Gimp over Photoshop. kIllustrator over Illustrator, and well, I don't know what they'll use in place of Pagemaker, but I'd be happy to find out.