Recently Adobe announced that it is joining the Linux Foundation, according to Fox Business. The Linux Foundation is “a nonprofit consortium dedicated to fostering the growth of Linux,” according to their website. When things like this happen, it is hard to tell if it is just a press release or if Adobe really intends to pay more attention to Linux, but we can hope they really do care about Linux.

Assuming this announcement is more than a press release, it could mean a number of things. For one thing, it could likely lead to a better Flash Player for Linux, which would be very nice. Another, perhaps more significant possibility, is that Adobe will bring their applications like Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver, etc. to Linux. If that happened, it would be a huge deal, because Adobe’s applications are almost all often considered #1 in their category (not that I am a fan, grr… monopoly grr…)

While it may seem crazy to some people (myself included) that Adobe would put all the effort into porting their applications to Linux, there is another way they could do it. In order to make Picasa for Linux, Google took the Windows version and packaged it with a custom version of WINE. With all the attention being put into Adobe applications on WINE already, something similar might work.

Adobe joining the Linux Foundation could just be a press release, but I am hopeful it means more than that for Linux.

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