Corporate madness - Adobe software to be subscription only

[Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain@aeris.net)]

Jeremy Griffith wrote:
> 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...  ;-)

Hmmm ... I think I would like to hear more about this! :)

Z