Showing posts with label adobe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label adobe. Show all posts
29 September 2012

Why Everyone Should Care About DRM's Punishment Of The Visually Impaired

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Techdirt writes a lot about the problems with DRM, and how inefficient and inconvenient it is. But for millions of visually-impaired peo...
28 July 2010

Will Adobe See the Light (of Day)?

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The content management company Day Software may not be the world's most famous outfit making money from open source – perhaps a functio...
22 April 2009

A Timeline of Microsoft Hurt

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I've often written about particular instances where Microsoft has bullied competitors; it's a pretty sorry tale. But that story bec...
17 February 2009

Adobe and Nokia Fund Open Screen Project

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The Open Screen Project was set up in May 2008: Partners in the Open Screen Project are working together to provide a consistent runtime en...
01 October 2008

Respect, Nathive

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In the world of closed-source software, it's hard to get a project going in a sector with established players. Since everything must be...
25 September 2008

Want to Open Flash? Ask Sun How

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I'm not the world's biggest fan of Flash, but there's no denying an open version would at least be better than a closed one. He...
15 September 2008

How Open is the Open Video Player Initiative?

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Here's that “open” meme again: Interactive agencies, ad technology firms and software firms joined with Akamai to build a best practices...
04 September 2008

I Don't Want to Say We Told You so...

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...but we told you so. If you use proprietary programs and proprietary formats, this is what happens: A number of European startups - and ...
28 May 2008

Give Me a Platform...

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...and I will infect the world: Symantec has warned of a security hole in Adobe's Flash Player that is already being exploited by web s...
01 April 2008

OK, So Adobe Supports GNU/Linux – But How Much?

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On Open Enterprise blog .
25 February 2008

Adobe Opens Up (A Bit)

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On Open Enterprise blog .
21 February 2008

Adobe Flash - Now with Added Evil

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Another reason to hate Flash: Now Adobe, which controls Flash and Flash Video, is trying to change that with the introduction of DRM restri...
18 February 2008

Photoshop on GNU/Linux

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As I've noted elsewhere , free software is absolutely central to Google's success and future. Here's some further proof - it...
06 February 2008

Is Dead Code Worth Open Sourcing?

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On Open Enterprise blog .
31 December 2007

Open Source Unoriginal? - How Unoriginal

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Here's a tired old meme that I've dealt with before, but, zombie-like, it keeps on coming back : The open-source software community ...
11 December 2007

What Richard Stallman Wants for Christmas

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Bruce Byfield has an interesting write-up of the FSF's High Priority Free Software Projects . Projects make this list "because the...
21 November 2007

GNU PDF Project

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Around ten years ago I fought a fierce battle to get people to use HTML instead of PDF files, which I saw as part of a move to close the Web...
16 October 2007

BBC iPlayer: Converted in a Flash

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Well, here's an interesting confluence of two of my pet hates: By adopting Adobe Flash Player software, the BBC will make its free catc...
02 August 2007

Google's Choice of Hercules

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Further to yesterday's post about a call to respect free use of copyrighted material, here's an interesting point about Google...
31 May 2007

Google's Gears of War

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Gears is a browser extension that we hope -- with time and plenty of input and collaboration from outside of Google -- can make not just our...