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Originally Posted by bowerbird
bob said:
> Adobe seems to not sabotage others who want to use it
> or create tools for it without an Adobe partnership
whoa! have you forgotten how adobe stomped microsoft
when redmond was going to put native .pdf into vista?
from the get-go, they were robbing service bureaus blind.
and their track record for buying up their competition is
absolutely ghastly. their latest victim was macromedia.
and now they seem to be using flash for _everything_...
adobe is the meanest dog in the yard. i don't trust 'em.
_especially_ how they're using the ubiquity of .pdf as
the "frozen" format to now try to leverage into reflow.
fortunately, light-markup systems are flowering fully,
and i don't think adobe can do anything about it, but
you have to _always_ be careful of the meanest dog...
-bowerbird
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Erm pdf is natvie in Mac OSX so I doubt that its absence (if it is indeed absent) from Vista is anything to do with Adobe 'stomping on' Microsoft.
Yes indeed its purchase of Macromedia strengthened its position in the market for content production tools where it is definitely the dominant player. It is backing epub for its own business reasons but that deosn't mean that epub isn't (potentially at least) good news for publishers and consumers.