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Adobe cites bad blood for closed Flash
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| Everyone loves open source - well, everyone apart from Microsoft, that is.
| The only problem with open source is deciding how much code control you're
| willing to relinquish, especially when open source puts your precious bits
| and bytes - and ultimately your own product plans - into the hands of your
| competitors.
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| Adobe Systems' Flash has long dominated PCs and the web, but the company has
| been under slowly mounting pressure to open source the player's source code.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/26/adobe_google_mozilla_tensions/
Recent:
Want to Open Flash? Ask Sun How
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| Now replace the word "Flash" with "Java", and you have precisely the
| argument that Sun used to give for not open-sourcing Java. Which is now
| available under the GNU GPL.
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| Adobe, are you listening...?
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/09/want-to-open-flash-ask-sun-how.html
Free Flash community reacts to Adobe Open Screen Project
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| Both Otte and Savoye do see some limited good coming out of the Open Screen
| Project. Otte suggests that the growing openness of Adobe might help to
| reduce the reservations in the free software community about working to
| reproduce proprietary technologies, as well as "the general 'flash is evil'
| attitude" that prevails in the community."
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| Moreover, both Otte and Savoye see the announcement as a hopeful sign. "I
| think Adobe will open up Flash in the end, or at least the Flash player,"
| Otte says.
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| Savoye expresses the same hope, although he notes that, "I've been told by
| people at Adobe that their Flash player has so many other people's
| intellectual property in it that they can never free up the code." However,
| he adds that examples like Sun's removal of propriety elements from the
| original StarOffice code to produce OpenOffice.org and its current efforts
| with Java indicate that the move is not impossible. "The trick is, are they
| going to make that kind of commitment?" he asks.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/134378
Adobe Drops Licensing Fees, Gives Away Flash For Devices
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| Software maker Adobe announced Thursday that it would drop many of the
| licensing requirements attached to its Flash technology, which is used to
| display video and audio content on the web.
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http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2008/04/adobe-drops-lic.html
Adobe Joins Linux Foundation But Forgets About Flash for Linux
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| I would hope that Zemlin will encourage Adobe to now treat Linux as a first
| class citizen as opposed to an afterthought for release after Windows.
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| I hope Zemlin will pressure Adobe to finally actually make Flash -- not just
| the player -- but Flash CS3 Professional, (the core Flash development tool)
| available for Linux as a fully commercially available and supported product.
| It is somewhat ironic in my opinion that Adobe can join the Linux Foundation,
| claim to support Linux and yet not offer its flagship Flash development tool
| on Linux.
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http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2008/03/adobe-joins-linux-foundation-b.html
For Adobe, a tough lesson in (open-source) diplomacy
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| The brouhaha had to be painful for Adobe, a community-friendly company that
| likes to think of itself as a kinder, gentler outfit than arch-rival
| Microsoft . But here Adobe was, accused of using its overwhelming position in
| PDF software to make money at the expense of smaller companies -- the very
| sort of behavior that earned Microsoft a bad rap in Silicon Valley.
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http://blogs.business2.com/utilitybelt/2007/08/for-adobe-a-tou.html
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