[Gloucs] Getting rid of Windoze

[Steve Greig]

Hi, as another relative newcomer to Linux and this email list I have found 
the recent correspondence on applications very useful: thanks. I was also 
very interested in the story about Disney. Could you answer the following: 
When Disney and the two other companies developed the software to enable 
Adobe photoshop to be run on Linux OS why did they then make the software 
available free of charge to everybody instead of just keeping it for 
themselves. Is this to do with GNU General Public License? Does it require 
that if you modify or extend something covered by such a license for your 
own use you are required to make the software you have created available to 
everybody or are Disney et al just making this available to us voluntarily? 
Would be very interested to know what you think.
Best wishes from Steve


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "paul cooke" <paul.cooke100 at blueyonder.co.uk>
To: <gloucs at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 9:28 PM
Subject: Re: [Gloucs] Getting rid of Windoze


> On Friday 04 March 2005 17:31, Rob Shields wrote:
>> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
>> From: Guy Edwards <guy_j_edwards at hotpop.com>
>> Reply-To: Gloucestershire LUG <gloucs at mailman.lug.org.uk>
>> Date:  Fri, 04 Mar 2005 01:06:43 +0000
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> I've been lurking here for some time - so "Hi" to everyone here.  Just a
> couple of thoughts on this thread:
>> >Dia is Visio on a budget. Fireworks is different, I've not used it so
>> >I'm not going to try and compare it to something.
>> >
>> >From what I remember, fireworks has bitmap and vector graphics editing
>> > capabilities in a form not dissimilar to Photoshop, as well as being 
>> > able
>> > to generate wads of HTML and javascript for things like DHTML menus,
>> > slices and image maps. It integrates somewhat with Dreamweaver and 
>> > Flash,
>> > and I'm fairly certain there's nothing else quite like it.
>>
>> Just a thought about Photoshop, would it not be possible to run it under
>> WINE?
>>
>
> all versions of photoshop except CS run with Wine... you have Disney and 
> two
> other animation studios who wish to remain anonymous to thank for this as
> they paid for programmers to work on Wine to sort out any 
> incompatibilities.
> Disney use Photoshop a lot, but have migrated their art departments to 
> Linux
> and wanted to carry on using Photoshop.
>
> <http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1210083,00.asp>
>
> |Rather than wait, Disney, along with two other motion picture animation
> |studios (which declined to be named for this article), decided to jointly
> |fund the development of a Windows-to-Linux porting solution. The idea:
> |develop technology using the Wine emulator to run Adobe Photoshop on 
> Linux.
> [snip]
> |The project has paid off tremendously for Disney this year alone. 
> Development
> |of the porting solution, including site licenses, cost Disney less than
> |$15,000. Had he opted to run Photoshop on Windows machines, it would have
> |cost upward of $50,000 just in annual licensing fees, said Brooks. He
> |estimates support would have been an additional $40,000 a year.
>
>
> <http://frankscorner.org/index.php?p=graphics>
>
> Frank's Corner has details of how to get lots of packages running using 
> just
> ordinary Wine without having to use Cedega or Codeweavers Crossover.
>
> There are many more programs that work fine with Wine and require no 
> coddling
> at all.
>
> Hope this helps :)
>
>
>
>
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