Adobe Bashes Open-Source Alternatives

“Adobe Systems has embraced open-source software for some
products, but its core Creative Suite line looks like it’ll remain
proprietary.

“In a blog posting Sunday, Adobe’s top creative products
executive, John Loiacono, made unflattering remarks about
open-source alternatives whose free cost is offset by the time that
creative pros have to spend fiddling. ‘Time is money,’ he opines,
not without merit, and links to a blog posting by Eric Vreeland,
who observed, ‘Debugging recent installs of certain open-source
software has wasted immense amounts of my spare time; charged at my
hourly rate these hours represent a pile of cash bigger than that
which full list price versions of comparable commercial software
would require for purchase.’ Vreeland opted for the $2,500 Creative
Suite Master Collection, which bundles 12 Adobe products, such as
Photoshop, Premiere and Illustrator…”

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