Corporate madness - Adobe software to be subscription only

[Writer]

At the risk of sounding all Pollyanna, perhaps what Adobe is doing is actually good for the tech writing community. Perhaps it WILL inspire people to create other choices/other competition.

At least it is prompting the conversation.

Nadine

--- On Sat, 5/11/13, Jeremy H. Griffith <jeremy at omsys.com> wrote:

> From: Jeremy H. Griffith <jeremy at omsys.com>
> Subject: Re: Corporate madness - Adobe software to be subscription only
> To: "framers at lists.frameusers.com" <framers at lists.frameusers.com>
> Received: Saturday, May 11, 2013, 8:54 PM
> 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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