Macromedia Applies For OSI Certification

mpawlo writes "As reported by Greplaw, Macromedia, the company behind Flash-technology and more, has applied for open source certification of one of its licenses. The Macromedia license is based on the IBM Public License. You can see the Application for certification as well as the The Macromedia licence."

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[rice_burners_suck]

Sorry my post offended you. I'm replying in connection to your statement that, "if you thought about it some more, you'd realize Adobe is even worse than Microsoft is." Could you please explain your logic? I know Adobe sucks for several reasons:

• They got Dmitry in big trouble, those bastards.
• They make Adobe Acrobat, which displays PDF files, yet that stupid program doesn't display Postscript files, Postscript being the parent format of PDF, and a format they, themselves invented.
• They bitched and moaned about KIllustrate allegedly confusing customers, when everybody knows full well that KIllustrate and Adobe Illustrator are not even similar, let alone confusing. (Besides, anybody who is confused is an idiot.)

All that said, Microsoft is the big huge evil empire. They're gonna end up turning this world into a 100% digitally rights managed world where you have to prove your innocence every time someone farts or you'll be taken to torture chambers and made to conform. Microsoft's products are some of the worst ones out there in terms of bloat, efficiency and reliability, and yet they've managed to stuff their garbage down the throats of the entire world, getting everything so tied up in their proprietary formats and whatnot that it'll be damn near impossible for the good guys (Linux and the other Free software projects out there) to save the world. Adobe's programs are somewhat more reliable than Microsoft's, in my experience (I used them in school--no, I'd never waste money on their software when there's perfectly good free alternatives, and even if there weren't, I'd buy from Corel, or anyone else who's more reputable than Adobe), and Adobe's software isn't shoved down every single person's throat. So, sorry for wasting your time, but how is Adobe worse than Microsloth?