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Summoning Adobe to fix a monopoly feels... Perverse. At a technical level, they might have the chops to build something from scratch, but they've more than abu
by oliwarner 4y ago
Summoning Adobe to fix a monopoly feels... Perverse.
At a technical level, they might have the chops to build something from scratch, but they've more than abused their market position over the last two decades. We don't need another standard without interop.
Put the engineering into open source or open standards. We can't continue with software society relies on being locked in like this.
- userbinator 4y ago"An enemy of an enemy is a friend."
- oliwarner 4y agoI prefer The Scorpion and the Frog. When like likes of Adobe and Autodesk sting their users, everyone is angry but nobody is surprised. It's just their nature.
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- hawski 4y agoIt reminds me about a story by Philip K. Dick - Autofab. It's a story about postapocaliptic world with automated factories that do not stop to work after the work causing trouble for people. People decide to make the factories fight with each other. Let's just say it doesn't end in a good way.
- DonHopkins 4y agoGreat point, and great story, with a terrible ending that illustrates the point about Adobe and Autodesk. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autofac https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autofac Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams Episode 8 (Autofac) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6902176/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6902176/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCLlXrn840M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCLlXrn840M
- oldgradstudent 4y agoWe're grading on a curve here.