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Can you both help us understand your stance, instead of throwing political words? In his open letter [1], Steve Jobs specifies his open source contribution for
by yonixw 5y ago
Can you both help us understand your stance, instead of throwing political words?
In his open letter [1], Steve Jobs specifies his open source contribution for HTML5 and the Webkit browsers. Meanwhile Adobe itself did not contribute any. All the available tools noted above were not officials. He was very correct at the time.
Also noted in the letter, the incentives in play are actually the opposite of what you have said, as how Apple and Adobe work together bringing Adobe software to Mac. Why would Steve Jobs hurt any Adobe product, isn't it hurting the MAC demographic at the time (artists)? As there was never any Apple software competing with Adobe.
IMHO, it's more likely that flash on mobile were to be a real problem holding the iPad\iPhone back if supported. So much so, Steve had to publish it and gain support from the outside world. Because I doubt any C-Level executive would be behind him destroying the mutual relationship with adobe.
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20200430094807/https://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/ https://web.archive.org/web/20200430094807/https://www.apple...