So the only reason why I'm not already on a Linux OS is because my work depends on the Adobe packages.
Other multimedia software companies like Autodesk already support Linux operating systems, is there any hope that Adobe would one day do the same?
Inside a few years, the suite will likely fall out of the mainstream and be used for/by legacy companies. The future will be cross platform, but no time soon. Just look at the last few CS releases. Little functionality innovation, but a whole lot of suite integration trying to suck users into using things like bridge even though most users only use ~3 of the programs that somewhat work together. It's like MS office, when was the last time there was something innovative or useful? These software programs have hit a zenith and the current business plan is to try to lock down users and industries since there is little more to offer consumers.
So, no. No time soon.
I don't think linux is such a great potential market for Adobe. There are too many options in open source for Adobe to make a chance of having a profitable business in selling closed source stuff for linux.
It's too late now: many customers already require custom RAW processing of images, in the professional market, the "one size fits all" RAW processing of Adobe Camera Raw and Apple Aperture are just not cutting it any more, if you want profit as a photographer/graphic designer, you simply have to use open source RAW developing tools and less post-processing, or you'll only be able to charge what any freelancing consumer would be able to charge. With things like AMD APP and other next-gen hybrid PC technologies, performance on closed source software is also lacking to survive to the next evolutionary step in computer hardware.
Maybe when linux users amount to more the 2% of the market share...
... in the US, that is.
Not only the linux market share counts but the market share in the US consumer market. One of the big problems of US software houses is that they just don't care much about other languages and cultures. That has worked fine for some time, but isn't working out any more.
The US market is retarded in many ways, slow linux adoption is one thing, unwillingness to adapt to other cultures and languages is another thing. Adobe is a US company, they won't change their ways until they are bought out by a non-US company.
Think the Global market share of linux is 1.65% (according to Net Applications) though I wonder if that includes China's Kylin Linux/NeoKylin/UbuntuKylin?
Not sure what languages has to do with linux adoption? or Adobe not chasing such a tiny market?
Not linux adoption, US made software tolerance. Adobe software is only available in 23 languages, popular open source packages are available in almost 80 languages, that's 4 times as much, and the translations are better, they're not full of languages errors and strange half-english expressions, and even if the open source translations aren't good, anyone can correct them easily and let others benefit from that too.
Another factor that's really annoying is the cultural censorship in US made software. Sometimes it's really annoying. Open source software users see these things when they use US made closed source software. Libre software is also about freedom of culture and opinion, something that's a huge problematic thing with US commercial software. Same thing for US owned internet services. Non-US people are getting really tired of the american cultural and political bigotry in every product they export. I'm not even going to start about this, but believe me, the "can't do" mentality in the US is killing a lot of opportunity.
And to be honest, you're never going to see a single US statistic that shows more than 2 % linux adoption, just because of so many things...
I would sincerely enjoy reading you going more in depth regard these issues if you ever find the time to write a blog!
I think I'm not going to do that, because it will most probably be seen as offensive, and what I write is seen as offensive enough as it is, but you can do a search for yourself on "learned helplessness" and conclude for yourself why laws are made to criminalize citizens in every normal thing they do (DMCA, etc...), why people are spied on in a systematic manner as soon as they use tools that could lead to acquiring freedom of thinking and independent knowledge (censorship on YouTube and media, NSA surveillance, data mining by big US corporations like Microsoft and Google), and why locked down commercial stuff is pushed to subjects during education, and why in the US, the credibility of a person is function of the amount of credit he is buying instead of the amount of talent and savings he's got...
The principle is simple: if you teach people to use commercial software console operating systems at school, they're not going to wonder what else you can do with a computer, and they are going to be convinced that the only way to do extra things is by buying extra commercial locked down stuff.
So yeah, I don't count on US statistics, press reports or government issued information as a source of knowledge... think of this for a minute: NASA has been running their Mars probes on linux for years, and there was never a problem, and the raw data from those probes can still be captured (the system is online for 10 years now without even a hickup) by anyone in the world,... why did they switch to proprietary commercial software for the Curiosity, basically a proprietary version of linux by Intel's Wind River division? Why does the data suddenly have to be censored and commercialized, why does the US no longer respect the Space Treaty, that states that all research in space is "for the benefit of mankind" and can't be censored or commercialized? Can you really trust US generated data at all? It's really strange to look at what's happening in the US from an external point-of-view...
adobe got hacked pretty seriously recently so their code is "open-source" already lol