but do you mean OSFlash is *just* a repository ? (because RIAForge is a repository right now) what about the community thing ? mailing lists, known people, confidence in projects, support ? I am always being too negative (I know)....
> I dont think there is any need to be so defensive. > > There is nothing wrong with adobe creating such a website for their > line of products. OSFlash doesnt "own" the concept of open source > flash related products. More importantly it certainly doesnt own open > source for the whole family of adobe products. > > Its funny. To me open source is about being **OPEN**. From some of > this discussion you would think OSFlash was a profit making company > competing with other open source companies where, instead I think the > real idea is foster the idea of open source in whatever way is > possible. > > Oh, and who cares what Mike Chambers knew or didnt know. It doesnt > make this any better or worse. And the fact that someone in a big > company didnt know what another person was doing hardly qualifies as > err... funny. Its pretty normal. > > I think, so far, there is nothing bad about their new site, and > potentially there lots of good could come of it. > > > On 10/19/06, Ralf Bokelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> <rant> >> To me it looks like Adobe doesn't have a real community strategy. >> From >> a company like Adobe i would expect to formulate and publish a >> strategic goal and then to do everything to achieve it. Instead of >> this, Adobe people are suggesting to use Adobe forums and mailing >> lists instead of flexcoders, or are creating sites like RIAForge >> instead of supporting osflash. I think, community is a very fragile >> thing. You can't just "move" it from one place to another. It builds >> arround people. So if you want to move community, you have to move >> (read support) people maybe? >> </rant> >> >> I like the cheap design of RIAForge though :) >> Cheers, >> Ralf. >> >> >> On 10/19/06, Mike Chambers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Just because we may have registered the domain name, does not >>> mean we >>> own the site. Although, maybe we do. (I don't really know). >>> >>> mike chambers >>> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> >>> On Oct 18, 2006, at 6:40 PM, Tim Scollick wrote: >>> >>>> It sure looks like Adobe owns it, Mike! >>>> >>>> http://www.whois.net/whois_new.cgi?d=riaforge.com >>>> >>>> Tim >>>> >>>> On 10/18/06, Mike Chambers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sorry for >>>> not responding to this earlier, I just found out about this >>>> also. >>>> >>>> From what I understand, this isnt meant to be a competitor to >>>> OSFlash (if anything, it is meant to compliment it). >>>> >>>> Ben Forta (who has been working on this) sent me this description: >>>> >>>> -- >>>> I just wanted to make it very clear that RIAForge is not >>>> intended to >>>> compete with osflash or any other similar projects. We built the >>>> site >>>> to be both house a community around Adobe products, and also to act >>>> as a consolidated list of all sorts of projects, both local and >>>> not. >>>> When projects are defined on RIAForge they can be local, or they >>>> can >>>> link to external sites and projects. Projects can opt to use >>>> specific >>>> features (project blog, project forum, project bug tracker, project >>>> subversion store) regardless of whether the project is local or >>>> not, >>>> or can simply be a listing with a link to external projects. >>>> -- >>>> >>>> As far as who owns it, I am not sure. We (Adobe) don't run it, >>>> although I believe we have provided some help. Some Adobe people >>>> (particular Ben and Mike Potter) might help out running the site. >>>> >>>> Anyways, hope that clears it not. Sorry for all of the confusion. >>>> >>>> mike chambers >>>> >>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Oct 18, 2006, at 7:15 AM, Aral Balkan wrote: >>>> >>>>> Looks like Adobe's got their own OSFlash alternative for the >>>>> various >>>>> Adobe products: >>>>> http://ray.camdenfamily.com/index.cfm/2006/10/18/Announcing- >>>>> RIAForge >>>>> >>>>> Aral >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> osflash mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> osflash mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> osflash mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> osflash mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org >>> >> >> >> -- >> Ralf Bokelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Flex & Flash Consultant based in Cologne/Germany >> >> _______________________________________________ >> osflash mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org >> > > _______________________________________________ > osflash mailing list > [email protected] > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
