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Old 08-05-2011, 03:25 PM   #30
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Originally Posted by EowynCarter View Post
What the hell are you talking about ?
Linux doesn't have a stable application binary interface, meaning that Adobe can't just compile a Linux program and expect it to work on much anything but that one very specific distribution/kernel.

Open source programs can just distribute, well, the source, and make users responsible for compiling it for themselves. But that's not an option for ADE (since the DRM relies on security by obscurity). So Adobe would need to offer dozens if not hundreds of versions of the software if they wanted users to be able to use it.

That's why they can't manage it. There's no one simple target like Windows or Mac OS X.
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