Fud, Fud and Fud et al

[paul sutton]

you raise a good point here,  however there is nothing to stop adobe 
writing an install script for acrobat reader in order to allow users to 
EASILY install it on client computers,   (it's a free download anyway). 
it would be better than download and manually installing.

GIMP is fine, i don't think the amount of choice given is anti 
competative, esp as the Linux and related source is available freely so 
if adobe want to port photoshop to Linux they could.  The only problem 
is the differences between gnome and kde,  in terms of libraries,  but 
this is being resolved so there is a common set of libraries, people can 
use,  which in the long term will benefit all users.  and may actually 
get things ported.  SOmetimes choice is a bad thingand can slow down 
progress but the community is willing to listen and address these 
issues, something again that should be promoted.

we need to do more postive promotion,  at present codeweavers produce 
crossover office, that can run photoshop, and other applications written 
for windows, lets not worry what Microsoft are doing, lets concentrate 
on what We as a community want, promote and enhance our software. we do 
that right and we may start getting more LInux desktops,

as people have said the more we bash microsoft it looks bad on us,   
plus the more we discuss MS articles with links or start threads like 
this it kind of suggests we have nothing to chat about with regard to 
OSS and Linux. 

Paul

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>After all, consider what's "bundled" in a typical Linux distribution.
>Are Linux distributors being anti-competitive against Adobe by including
>Xpdf, Ghostscript and Gimp? Is the installation-on-request of CLAM
>anti-competitive? If Linux distributions can include search engines,
>anti-virus and other tools that hurt sales from vendors of those
>products, why can't Microsoft?
>
>- Evan
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