Adobe's recent unethical actions

[Mike Szumlinski]

No offense dude, but doing press work with anything but photoshop and
InDesign are just silly. Yes...silly.

-Mike

On 7/18/01 3:34 PM, "Ben Pfaff" <pfaffben@msu.edu> wrote:

> Mrs. McHale and Mr. Prescott:
> 
> I have read in various places that Adobe has had Mr. Dmitri
> Sklyarov arrested for the "crime" of demonstrating that some of
> Adobe's encryption products do not provide good security.  This
> is an unethical and ultimately unacceptable way for a corporatino
> to behave.  Instead of trying to suppress criticism of your
> technologies, you should be improving them so that they do not
> have the flaws that they do.
> 
> As a result, I am boycotting all Adobe products, starting
> immediately.  This includes even such things as printers with
> Adobe-branded PostScript engines.  I am sending copies of this
> letter to a group of friends to encourage them to boycott Adobe
> as well.
> 
> I hope that Adobe will reconsider its actions in this matter.  At
> the very least, a public apology is due to Mr. Sklyakrov,
> possibly some other forms of compensation as well.  You should be
> thanking him, not attempting to imprison him for defects in your
> own technologies.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Ben Pfaff
> B.S., Michigan State University, Electrical Engineering.
> Stanford Graduate Fellow, Computer Science.

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