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Microsoft To Acquire Macromedia?
perly-king-69 writes "The Register is reporting that 'industry sources' say that Microsoft have Macromedia in their sights. Whilst it could just be holiday gossip, if they do pull it off it could have a significant impact on the cross-browser compatibility of Flash applications."
the day Macromedia is owned by Microsoft. That's a fact. Flash is so widely spread..
Wait, I think I'm about to come up with a gem. ...groan.....grunt....grrrrr....errrrrrr...PLOP!
By BogusPulledOutOfAssNews
Posted: 23/12/2002 at 14:14 GMT
Microsoft Corp is believed to have trained its acquisition crosshairs on Slashdot.org, lining up a deal that would throw the Linux and open source communities into a spin, Ergo98 writes.
Industry and analyst sources believe Microsoft covets Somewhere, Michigan-based Slashdot.org's recently horribly unreliable message board system, which is a hotbed of radical, contrarian thoughts and advocacy.
Microsoft's own Astroturfing efforts are regarded as relatively inferior to the cross-platform FUDstering of the GPL community, which now includes GCC, Linux, and Gnome, and has taken steps closer towards FreeBSD via promiscuous "borrowing" of BSD code. The primary advocates, meanwhile, continue to push their communist dreams of a utopian future to any and all who'll listen.
That story is pure FUD (check out computerwire.info to see the credibility of the source, and of course "The Register" `reporting' it immediately makes it suspect anyways). Someone literally pulled this stinker out of their ass as the likelihood of Microsoft acquiring Macromedia is tremendously small. Ignoring the regulatory nuisance it would create, the justification used to support this absurd premise just seemed so weak: If anything Flash has been rapidly declining in usage, and DHTML has supplanted it in the vast majority of its prior uses. SVG, an actual vector graphics standard (http://www.w3c.org/svg), will likely make even more of a chink in Macromedia's armour.
You're kidding? To have an idea of what is Microsoft's attitude towards this issue, just check msnbc website. No, I don't think MS would just kill Flash, I think they would include it into every aspect of your web experience, possibly driving some of us nuts.
:o)
Like MS wants to do something that would preserve sanity
Sigged!
Stop living like it's 1993. A website can be anything the owner wants it to be. If it were left up to computer geeks like you, there would be no graphics innovations, because a CLI is "good enough," right?
Yeesh.
It doesn't mean much now, it's built for the future.