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Why would they want to do that? If there's sufficient demand, companies like Adobe have enough billions in change to fund that effort.
yeah that's a problem. but we also need a lot of work on this side of wine.
they can certainly bring more people to their platform at a time computers are getting expensive to build, but integrators buying in bulk can wrestle better prices.