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Subject: Re: Graphics formats
Dave Pawson wrote: > On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 19:04 +0200, Justus Piater wrote: > >>>Did you know that Adobe bought Macromedia? >> >>Is this good news or bad news? More likely good, I guess... > > I really don't know. > > What do people think? Bad news. Very bad news. Fewer companies in the marketplace => less competition => higher prices and less technological advancement and less corporate interest in open formats. (I care about open formats far more than I care bout open source code.) That leaves what, Adobe and Microsoft as the only image processing companies of note? -- Larry Garfield AIM: LOLG42 larry@garfieldtech.com ICQ: 6817012 "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it." -- Thomas Jefferson
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