An app mentioned in that article, Krita, led me to learn more about it. In the first two paragraphs of the "About" page for Krita we find the theme that open source supporters simply cannot agree with each other.
I wonder if companies like Adobe stay off of the Linux not because it would be difficult to make Photoshop and their other apps work natively but because doing so would, for better or worse, force consensus on a desktop/compositing engine, etc. and remove a lot of obstacles that creative people have to writing worthy free competitors on a more than worthy free operating system.
An app mentioned in that article, Krita, led me to learn more about it. In the first two paragraphs of the "About" page for Krita we find the theme that open source supporters simply cannot agree with each other.
I wonder if companies like Adobe stay off of the Linux not because it would be difficult to make Photoshop and their other apps work natively but because doing so would, for better or worse, force consensus on a desktop/compositing engine, etc. and remove a lot of obstacles that creative people have to writing worthy free competitors on a more than worthy free operating system.
https://krita.org/en/about/history/