It's too bad, because this upgrade is really good. If it's too much for somebody, just sign up for a $60 community college class and buy it as an educational price. It's so much cheaper and you can use it commercially according to the license.

Adobe has gotten into my heart over the past couple years because I've seen that they are doing good work and have great people working for them. They don't support Linux across the board, just with flash player, flex stuff and I think frame maker, however, I do think that given what you get out of the software, though it's expensive the potential is there to make anything you want. Sure Xara is better than Illustrator in my opinion for 95% of the work I do in it, the 5% where illustrator wins is format conversion.

I think it's gonna take a free or cheap cross-platform flash killer for linux and a linux video editor to convince adobe to lower prices to compete with it and to support Linux. Xara too.