#DESIGN SUITE ADOBE SOFTWARE#

I sincerely doubt we will see a LibreOffice-like equivalent catering to the creative / design industry any time in the near future. This is a great source of strength, however it requires changing oneвЂ™s mind-set in order to fully appreciate it.

#DESIGN SUITE ADOBE SOFTWARE#

Generally speaking, open source software has a lot more in common with вЂњdisparate groupsвЂќ (people wanting to scratch their own itch) than an organisational design-by-committee style of approach (as shown here). It also now has a separate body ( OASIS) that manages the ODF specification. LibreOffice is rather unique in being a suite of applications that was originally developed by a single organisation, rather than a bunch of disparate groups. This article (linked from the previous) offers a decent account of the difficulties in reaching agreement about the first two points (and control over these). Some of these are touched on by articles like this one (refer the last two to three headings).

Flexibility in catering to different industries / workflows.

Common file formats (ideally specified by a separate organisation).

The general tone of such articles is often one of equating the components and features, but the real power of a tool suite is:

Alternativas a Adobe Creative Suite en software libre y barato.

Free Open Source Alternatives for Adobe Creative Suite.There are a great many pages on the web comparing the various open source offerings (some of which you mention) to the components in an Adobe suite.

This Forbes article offers a decent account of the new cloud-based service Adobe is offering. The only thing I have to say about that (generally speaking, not to you specifically) is: welcome to the future you helped bring about. Windows / Mac platform users have for years paid a hefty royalty to Adobe and now realise all it did was make a bad arrangement worse. Your question however points to several other issues (and a general mis-conception about free / libre software). I have marked up the answer by as it is largely correct in terms of the philosophy that you get what you pay for.

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