McAfee, Macromedia Flirting With F/OSS Community

Posted by timothy on Tuesday June 7, 2005 @12:21PM from the batting-eyes-shuffling-feet dept.

xbsd writes "Those computer industry specialists claiming that the end of Linux is fast approaching may be interested in two recent movements inside the industry. Two weeks ago, McAfee, one of the world leaders in computer security products, launched its first commercial antivirus solution for Linux, and just yesterday, Macromedia announced that it is joining the Eclipse Foundation and plans to deliver a next-generation rich Internet application (RIA) development tool code-named Zorn based on the popular open-source IDE."

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Macromedia sucks by pyite69 · 2005-06-07 14:28 · Score: 1, Troll

Why are they wasting their time with a new initiative when most of their existing products are not usable on Linux?

I still can't create flash content on Linux; and I can't even use shockwave applets.