Corporate madness - Adobe software to be subscription only

[Alan T Litchfield]

Jeremy,

Very keen to know more, mate. Time for a robust system that does what FM 
used to do so well.

Alan

On 12/05/13 12:54 PM, Jeremy H. Griffith wrote:
> On Sat, 11 May 2013 11:33:13 -0700 (PDT), Writer
> <generic668 at yahoo.ca> wrote:
>
>> I say we start a new company and create a competitor
>> to FrameMaker! Who's with me? Anyone? Anyone?
>
> Well... we've had one on the back burner for several
> years now.  Basically it's an Open Source GPL project,
> so zero financing needed, with a very basic core and
> plugins independently installable for most of the
> functionality.  We called it "Omni 2.0", after the
> very first product I wrote, the first screen-oriented
> editor ever on CP/M 1.4 on 8080 (way before WordStar).
>
> If there really is much interest, we can set it up
> as a SourceForge project pretty easily (we have a
> couple of others on SourceForge).  We're not set on
> that name, or on much of anything else except GPL.
>
> Greed doesn't always have to win out...  ;-)
>
> -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
>    <jeremy at omsys.com>    http://mif2go.com/
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