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Indeed. Adobe had showed the way with the Macromedia's acquisition: swallow your only other competitor and keep everything close. In fact one can see _all_ the

by nanairo 16y ago

Indeed. Adobe had showed the way with the Macromedia's acquisition: swallow your only other competitor and keep everything close. In fact one can see _all_ the open source Adobe projects: http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/site/Projects http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/site/Projects How many of these were projects that they had and were subsequently open sourced? I count Tamarin, and possibly a few more which I hadn't heard of. Why not open source Acrobat? Or Photoshop? Or Flash? Edit: forgot to add that Oracle may have killed the OpenSolaris's corporate backing, but it seems intentioned to support quite a lot of Sun's open source projects. Plus isn't BTRFS coming from Oracle too?

MartinCron 16y ago
Open sourcing their platforms like Acrobat and Flash would kind of make sense, but I have a hard time seeing any upside to opening up Photoshop. It's not like they can sell service and support for it, as there's an entire industry around training and books and advice. Maybe they could sell premium plug-ins, but there's already an industry around that, too.