Adobe's recent unethical actions

[Scott Wood]

This is off topic, but I found that Corel Draw runs them some competition and
some claim that Gimp or PSP 7 do a reasonable 'poor man's equivalent.

Scott

--- Mike Szumlinski <szumlins@pilot.msu.edu> wrote:
> 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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