No he said that is how Adobe and Macromedia before them has treated it...not that it is how it should be. That is what everyone seems to be advocating.
-----Original Message----- From: Gerald Guido [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2011 19:58 To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Is Coldfusion losing it biggest asset? On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 7:55 PM, Sean Corfield <[email protected]>wrote: >> Didn't you read what I said? Loosely translated, you said that the continued success of a commercial product is the responsibility of the consumer to advocate it's use to other consumers and not the company that produced the product. Flame on Garth, G! On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 7:55 PM, Sean Corfield <[email protected]>wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Michael Grant <[email protected]> wrote: > > If the success of CF isn't Adobe's responsibility then who's is it? > > Didn't you read what I said? > > >> Remember: the success of PHP, Ruby and other languages has come > >> about _without_ a company spending money on marketing. Those > >> languages have become popular because their users - their > >> communities - have evangelized and created tutorials and books and > >> great free open source software and so on. You can't lay the fault at Adobe's door... > > Community promotion made PHP, Ruby et al popular. > > Sean > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:340863 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
