I see Adobe's effort just a weird way to launch a site don't you think? You know I usually don't post just read but this one seems so strange.
On Thursday 19 October 2006 7:08 am, David Mendels wrote: > Hello, > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > > Behalf Of João Saleiro "Maybe I'm a bit naive, but I think we should > > contact Adobe to know definitely their position about OS, OsFlash > > community" > > I'm from Adobe: > > A) We think OSFlash and the OSFlash community is great. > B) Many of us subscribe to the list and Adobe itself has contributed OS > projects to OSFlash (Mike Chambers Javascript Connection kit). You may > recall Kevin Lynch even showed OSFlash at one of the conference keynotes he > did last year. Having a rich OS ecosystem around Flash is good for all of > us. I won't comment on specific projects here because I don't know enough > about all of them. C) RIAForge was driven by Ben Forta (an Adobe Employee) > and Ray Camden (a member of the developer community) and a few others. Ben > is a senior evangelist for us; he is also a member of the developer > community himself and has written many books outside of his role as an > Adobe employee. Like Mike Chambers, and Ted Patrick and others you may > know, Ben was a prolific and visible member of the community before we > (actually, Allaire in this case) hired him. We give people like Ben quite > a lot of autonomy and while we have a lot of internal coordination, my > belief is that folks like Ben and Mike are best for us and for the > community when they are not tightly controlled by a tops down beaurocracy. > So apologies for not communicating better internally and with this group in > advance, but that is the kind of error one makes if one lets people do > projects like this with some autonomy. D) It is not our intent to own this, > but we did register the domain name. This was build in collabotion with > Ray and other folks outside Adobe and it would be wrong for us to claim > that it is a pure Adobe effort. E) It is related but very different in > scope to OSFlash. I didn't expect a conflict. I hope both thrive. > > Hope this helps, > David > > _______________________________________________ > osflash mailing list > osflash@osflash.org > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list osflash@osflash.org http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
