I know that it's posh to hate on Adobe, but in all measures of truth and relative endearment, Adobe isn't really that bad of a software company. Like any softwa

I know that it's posh to hate on Adobe, but in all measures of truth and relative endearment, Adobe isn't really that bad of a software company. Like any software company, they've (still are?) going through a bit of a wobbly period. Macromedia was an essential buy for Adobe, but with it Adobe picked up a lot of legacy ideologies that Macromedia fostered within their products. Not to say Macromedia was a poor software company. I think Macromedia was bought by Adobe just as it had itself managed to find itself within its industry. Flash is proprietary, yes. A lot of the software you use everyday is proprietary - or at least to the point where codec/patent hounds aren't sniffing at your door. We can now see that Adobe is trying to right the ship here with Edge. People still gripe about Adobe as if they have something up their sleeve. Well, of course they do. They are trying to make a profit on creating creative authoring tools. Flash is a creative technology. Just because it's locked up doesn't change that. Now HTML5 + JS libs are making a run for creative minds (over developer ones) and Adobe sees that and is fine with it. In fact, overall, it's probably easier for them as they don't have to maintain their own language or pay any licensing fees so long as they don't include support for infringing patents. It's nice to see Adobe didn't take the developer/designer lightly when one of their flagship products was being gunned at from every direction. Personally, I thought Adobe would have to go through a much longer period of self-reflection before Edge would be seen. I know Steve Jobs hates Adobe, even if at times it doesn't really make a whole lot of business sense to do so. And I know Adobe is imperfect, like a lot of software companies are. But Edge smells of change and I like it.