Without the release of Photoshop and the other pieces of the tool chain, it was destine to fail. Why they would ever think it would succeed without the rest of the tool chain is beyond me. If they fooled themselves with the fact that developers could use a virtual for photoshop etc. Then it makes no sense to purchase a separate licence for linux, I would just buy the licence for the windows virtual.
It amazes we that whoever is in charge of this decision does not have the capacity to understand that. I would question their competency in their role. If they have no intent of releasing a full Linux tool chain then it make sense to kill it off as it will never gain traction without the other tools that developers of flash applications use.
I am just floored that they would have ever though it would succeed without the other tools and then to blame the economics of Linux as the reason for failure shows a firm denial of the understanding of reality. If I used as PC platform, I would run Linux, I prefer Unix operating systems because I cut my teeth on them so I always feel comfortable on them the thing that would stop me from using it would be the absence of the Adobe suite. One of the major reasons I run OSX is due to the fact that it is the only Unix OS that runs the Adobe suite.
... And this is why proprietary formats (not software) are evil. Once the owner decide to kill the tools, the format and the corresponding documents/applications are dead also.
It amazes we that whoever is in charge of this decision does not have the capacity to understand that. I would question their competency in their role. If they have no intent of releasing a full Linux tool chain then it make sense to kill it off as it will never gain traction without the other tools that developers of flash applications use.
I am just floored that they would have ever though it would succeed without the other tools and then to blame the economics of Linux as the reason for failure shows a firm denial of the understanding of reality. If I used as PC platform, I would run Linux, I prefer Unix operating systems because I cut my teeth on them so I always feel comfortable on them the thing that would stop me from using it would be the absence of the Adobe suite. One of the major reasons I run OSX is due to the fact that it is the only Unix OS that runs the Adobe suite.