Macromedia, Adobe make peace for bigger fight (News.com)
Posted Apr 20, 2005 13:18 UTC (Wed) by
cpm (guest, #3554)
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Macromedia, Adobe make peace for bigger fight (News.com)
I heard a little blurb on NPR about this yesterday, in which
Yankee group anaylist Laura DiDio was heard to blather something
about how great it all is, and the one thing I heard that
stuck in my craw, was "Since Adobe and Macromedia give their
software away for free, , , , "
And folks just eat this up. What would have been more true
would have been to state, "Since Adobe and Macromedia license
the viewers for their software at no financial cost, ," (locking
in their proprietary blah blah, forcing upgrades at every
turn, blah blah, filling scrap piles with waste that cannot
be disposed of due to the constant hardware upgrades required
by all this garbage blah blah" But no. Adobe and Macromedia
both offer "Free Software".
Am I being a pill?
Yes. I'm really getting kind of fed up with NPR, (whom I really
expect to be less of a corporate shill than Fox News) in their
wholly one-sided views.
Yes..
One sided.
I don't know if anyone else ever listens to Tech Tuesday, but back
on Jan 25th, they did a brilliant job getting huckster Jonathan
Zuck to totally dismiss "free software" as just a fad, in a "discussion"
concerning the release of IBM patents into the free software community.
For a long time, I've accepted that these are complicated discussions
and hard to capture in a sound bite. However, here again, in this
talk about the continued locking in and growth of software
monopolies, The march of FUD continues unabated, in fact, is growing
stronger with each press release.
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