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Explaining Adobe's Weird Omniture Acquisition
- GiraffeNecktie 17y agoThis seems to tie in with the recent discussion about how much more personal information is captured by your Flash plugin and how very much more persistent it is (relative to the data captured in ordinary cookies).
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- xsmasher 17y agoAdobe has always wanted to be more than just "the Photoshop People" - which is good considering how Corel, Fractal design, MetaCreations, and eventually Macromedia fared. Selling paintbrushes is a hard business.
- cpr 17y agoI find it quite sad to watch Adobe losing the last vestiges of its hacker roots (Geschke and Warnock were great engineers) and its high-quality graphics roots, as it becomes The Flash Company. (Especially since I knew Geschke a bit back at their start-up time. Was almost the 9th employee. ;-)