I meant "generalize and subsume" (word hinting is a killer app).

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From: René Micout <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2010 1:34 AM
To: How to use Revolution <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Apples actual response to the Flash issue

Even if I do not always understand the words of Randall, on the merits, I quite 
agree with what he says.

Le 2 mai 2010 à 02:11, Randall Lee Reetz a écrit :

> Also, adobe isn't doing any of its code "donkeys" any favors when it under 
> exploits the market through old world protectionist business practices and an 
> avoidance of future looking technology. As with retirement pools, an entity 
> will never be able to sustain old obligations on the profits of old ideas.  
> New ideas and new levels of profitability are the only way to pay the 
> obligations owed to the inventors for efforts towards past innovations.  If 
> adobe really wants to profit from its own past it will have to figure out how 
> to generalive and subsume the salient aspects of its IP to a layer new 
> products and markets can build on top of.  Holding on to software application 
> markets born 20 years ago is a strategy born to fail.  I think IBM Is a good 
> lesson on how a company needs to think about maturing.  Don't push your past 
> solutions, push the human resources and resource management and 
> infrastructure knowhow that your old product successes make evident.  Sell 
> the ability to make solutions, not solutions themselves.  Give away the 
> source as a way to market the minds.  More money will flow in.  Stock holders 
> (the original innovators) will benefit more than thy would through draconian 
> measures to extend the natural life of a product category.

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