Hi, Chaals- Charles McCathieNevile wrote: > > Adobe is a company. It is irresponible for them to make bad commercial > decisions.
In fact, it is not only irresponsible, under US corporate law, it is illegal for corporations to make decisions that harm their shareholder's stock (see the interesting documentary "The Corporation"). This raises the question, though... is this decision good or bad for Adobe's stockholders? That has yet to be seen. > They have no moral obligation to be nice to the people who use > their products (and in this case it is a product people just used and > never paid for). > > In my opinion, they are setting a bad precedent by withdrawing their > viewer completely so fast. They have a competing technology solution, > where there is a much higher lock-in factor than SVG - but if this is the > way they deal with customers, how attractive is it to give them even more > power over you? As you imply, acting immorally is legal, but may have undesirable consequences. > There are alternatives. I'd like to point out that one of the alternatives is the excellent Opera browser (Chaals' employer)... and Firefox, and Safari... I know that we often cannot control what browser our target audience uses, but we can influence it. By pointing out the advantages of modern browsers, policies can change at a corporate level. Let your clients know that these other browsers support not only SVG, but also have other benefits as well (security, cross-platform support, better standards compliance so more sites will appear as intended, desktop "widgets", and other features). My company is considering distributing copies of an SVG-enabled browser as one of its options. > Adobe has said they will make the plugin available > for another year and a half. And frankly, I expect that in total breach of > copyright law the Adobe plugin will still be readily available on the web > if Adobe removes it from their site. I'm sure you're right. In addition, if you sign their distribution agreement (available on their site, though who knows for how long), you can distribute it on a CD bundle (though you must keep their installer). But I would only want to use it as a very last resort... it's been dead for a long time, and it's going to stay dead. I'll probably keep it around for testing, but I expect to dump it for even that as soon as possible. Regards- -Doug ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
