Adobe exec: Oracle takes "evil" title from Microsoft

Kettle, Pot &c

Adobe realises that for PDF and Flash to be ubiquitous they need to have Linux versions -but that is a million miles from being open source!
Adobe regularly vies with Microsoft in user comments over monopolistic behaviour and US-Europe price differentials.

By milliganp on 25 Aug 2010

Axis of Evil

Adobe, Microsoft, Oracle - all on the axis of evil.

By C64C128 on 25 Aug 2010

Who's he trying to kid? Adobe sits square in the middle of the axis of evil. They're even worse than Microsoft.

By SwissMac on 25 Aug 2010

How could we forget Apple? Surely they've topped it nowadays.

By timfrance on 25 Aug 2010

What does Adobe know about open-source? Waffle, IMHO.

By c6ten on 25 Aug 2010

Adobe always way ahead in terms of evil compared to Apple and Microsoft

Adobe = photoshop, postscript, etc. Everything that adobe produces not only closed source but also prohibitively expensive for mainstream. They are not only the enemy of opensource but also the enemy of mainstream people with small wallets. If Adobe were dominated we were still 'looking' those expensive postscript printers and also trying to buy postscript font cartridges to print 'Helvetica' on those. Oracle is another Adobe that believes computers and software only for professionals and everything should be 'prohibitively' expensive. Microsoft and Apple are different stories that actually competing for 'ordinary' people... We will see that Oracle prevents every use of Java etc.

By HopeLESS on 25 Aug 2010

It will be a sad day when current Java license holders find out they have to pay more. Oracle is being evil. Many developers will be forced to switch, pay more or shut down - more job losses :(

By nicomo on 25 Aug 2010

Too little, too late

...For IBM... I think Oracle are going to hit IBM next, and IBM are going to regret not buying Sun when they had the chance!!!! They chose Java as they didn't want another repeat of MS-DOS, but uh-oh, it's happening again.

By rjd83 on 26 Aug 2010

Being Good

The thing is that Sun may have been open source friendly, but their business was going down the tubes, which opened them up to being acquired.

It's no good being 'good' if you lose the battle against 'evil'.

And at the end of the day, Google are doing exactly the same thing with Android/Dalvik as Microsoft did to Java - embrace and extend. But of course Google are the ones who invented the whole 'evil' rehetoric.

By JulesLt on 26 Aug 2010

Axis of Evil
Adobe, Microsoft, Oracle - all on the axis of evil.

By C64C128 on 25 Aug 2010



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Be fair... apple needs to be in there too, they are far worse that the others, just in a smaller way.

Interesting seeing how "industry giants" criticise the BBC for not adopting an "open source" (html5) ....when along comes a new "owner" of the "open source company" comes along & starts suing people over useage of "their" stuff.

Now who in their right minds would touch "open source" with a barge pole?

By mikeos on 26 Aug 2010