[REBOL] Re: Microsoft to buy Macromedia?
From: dada::gecko::verizon::net at: 26-Dec-2002 14:48
I'm not sure that M$ purchasing Macromedia is a good thing at all
(whether it's true or not).
I know that some of the REBOL listors are interested in propagating
REBOL's a/v capabilities, but the M$-purchase of Macromedia doesn't
necessarily make that possible.
What it DOES do, is make it possible for Flash content to become
FLash/IE content.
It makes it possible for even MORE security holes (imagine a FLash
MX/ActiveX security hole).
It makes it possible for M$ to exert an even STRONGER strangle-hold on
the Internet Content Delivery world, which makes it harder for
third-party tech to come in without subscribing to M$ technology
practices. And if anything, REBOL tries to be platform and technology
independent.
Overall, a purchase of the rights to Flash technology by M$ is a bad
thing. I believe that in any instance a large company absorbs a smaller
company. Less companies = more problems = less choice.
sd
