Microsoft does not need to bribe Adobe... As far back as the decision to tie the Premiere Pro beta to the Windows kernel microcode (around 2000, if I recall) Adobe had committed their efforts to plug & play on the Microsoft bandwagon. In case this is ancient history, that's when Apple & Adobe had a falling out - Adobe had pushed the old Premiere as far as the legacy code would allow, Apple decided to build their own "Better cause it's Apple" video editing software (aka Final Cut) and Adobe could see the desirability of offloading system level stuff so they could focus on "features & functionality". If the Linux community were to focus and develop only one (1) GUI and one (1) standard API, then Adobe might seriously consider implementing a Linux solution. But there are so many Linux flavors to choose from... X, KDE, Gnome, Unity, etc. Realistically it ain't gonna happen. My only hope in this direction is that a cloud hosted solution using a browser interface running on a gigabit end user Internet link might become the new standard - but that's at least 5 years out, as it means a substantial percentage of the end user Internet connections must be upgraded to gigabit fiber before the numbers will begin to make sense, and it means Adobe will have to build out the cloud infrastructure engines to handle the number crunching.
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