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This article suggests that adobe offer the PSD docs to solve the problem of reverse engineering, but to get the docs you have to sign an NDA, which means you ca
by zaius 17y ago
This article suggests that adobe offer the PSD docs to solve the problem of reverse engineering, but to get the docs you have to sign an NDA, which means you can't publicly release the source code. If they had a more sane licensing policy, the comments in that code wouldn't have ever needed to be written in the first place.
- tptacek 17y agoThe NDA is a red herring. Most developers on software that doesn't have a 20 year legacy would have the same complaints even if the format was documented rigorously for them. The Joel on Software article Nack cites really is an effective rebuttal. On the other hand, we really are making a big deal out of a random code comment. I don't know why Nack is perpetuating the story.