Let me clear the air on me once and for all and say that Matt has put
into words exactly what I, for whatever reason, of for being unknown
or whatever, said differently and got concerned about.
The answer is, Yes, I am doing a lot of Bayesian Probability research
(Indeterministic systems) and some of that has to do with recoloring
sections of images. I had the pleasure of speaking with one of the
leaders in this field from Cornell University, although it wasn't in a
proper setting, he at least recognized some of my points, and I some
of his.
This man is extremely talented and a PhD of course, and deals with
medical imaging. Music and medical imaging are what got me on the
road to Bayesian probability.
I just posted only one response in defense to someone mentioning me
and I'd like to "hide away in my nest egg" as the person put it, and
be left alone and out of your comments until September 12th when the
Webinar is over. And even then I probably won't post because some of
the more frequent posters on this list, simply do not like me.
Can this be the </end> and if not, can Matt Chotin's word's below be
the <end/> as although I don't know how he feels about me, I do
respect him greatly.
-r
On Sep 2, 2008, at 1:26 PM, Matt Chotin wrote:
Hey guys,
I guess this is what I get for going on vacation last week huh?
Clearly most of you guys saw the threads last week (and even today
frankly)
that I think went well over the line of what should be considered
acceptable
list behavior. I'd like to remind everyone that the words you post
here are
basically going to live on forever in search engines, mail archives,
etc.
Try not to write things that are going to embarrass you in the
future. And
while in general I don't have a problem with foul language (one need
only
hang out with me briefly) I think this forum is not the place for
it, and
ask that if you take the time to type it out, you take the time to
take a
deep breath and use those backspace and delete keys. OK, play nice,
issue
closed.
Robert was saying that there's a Scene 7 webinar and it will talk
about Flex
and developers may want to pay attention. I think most of you should
go and
attend but that's because I think that Scene 7 offers interesting
opportunities for various ecommerce solutions. I do not see Scene 7
competing with most of what you guys do (at least as far as I know).
If
however you have a system that you sell to large ecommerce sites
that does
high-end image manipulation including color changes and various
transforms,
I think you may be a competitor. Other than that, I don't believe
Scene 7
competes with what most Flex developers do.
Doesn't mean Adobe doesn't end up competing with customers. I always
feel a
total tinge of guilt when I see a really cool product out there and
know
that Adobe will compete in that area too. Adobe is a public company
that
needs to grow, that means that we will not be contracting our areas of
focus, we will be expanding. We obviously have a huge stake in image
software, it is reasonable to assume that we will be going into the
web
version of that pretty heavily (most folks would agree we'd be
pretty stupid
not to). If you look at where Acrobat is successful (and as much as
folks
hate Reader for being slow, it's really really successful) it is in
business
productivity. You can imagine we'll be continuing along those lines
(see
acrobat.com). So that's two examples, I'm sure there are others.
Last question was on Flexstore license and whether you can use it as
the
basis for commercial software or whatever. Answer: yes. You can use
Flexstore to do whatever you want. I think all the samples we post
on dev
center where source is available, you can treat that as being open
to doing
whatever you want where it says "see accompanying license".
Hope this helps,
Matt
Adobe
Flex Product Manager
