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[News] [Rival] Companies Get Burned by Proprietary Software and Formats

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Document startups in chaos as Adobe’s Flashpaper discontinues

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| A number of European startups - and many others globally - will be thrown 
| into chaos today with the news that Adobe is discontinuing development of its 
| Flashpaper product.  
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| Adobe will continue to sell and support the current FlashPaper 2 version, but 
| won’t be updating the technology to support Microsoft Windows Vista and IE7, 
| which will make it virtually worthless.  
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| The news will hit US sites like Scribd and Docstoc, and European sites like 
| the UK’s edocr and Germany’s Twidox which only recently won funding. edocr 
| currently bases all its document sharing on Flashpaper.  
| 
| Twidox CEO Nicholas MacGowan von Holstein contacted TechCrunch UK today to 
| say the move would have a major impact: “What about all the websites that 
| have been storing all their documents with Flashpaper? It will be a major job 
| having to transfer all those documents to a new solution.”   
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http://uk.techcrunch.com/2008/09/04/startups-in-chaos-as-adobes-flashpaper-discontinues/

They should have thought about standards and Free software.


Recent:

EFF: Microsoft betrayed MSN Music customers

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| The Electronic Frontier Foundation says that Microsoft has "betrayed" MSN
| Music customers and wants the company to make things right by issuing an
| apology, refunds, and eliminate digital rights management technology from the
| Zune music player.  
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9931304-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
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