Re: Rumour: FM really is dead

["Becky Swanson" <becky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Assumed that Adobe stops further FM development wouldn't it be an option
to make the source code publically available and let the open source
community take over?"

Adobe isn't in the business of being altruistic. If they made the source code
available, people would keep using it without paying them. If there's no
commercial alternative, most companies would migrate to whatever alternative is
provided (InDesign, for instance, though I think they'll lose the structured
crowd to ArborText).

However, word from Adobe's FM Product Manager, Karl Matthews, is that there is
no truth at all to this rumor that FM is dead. I've asked for permission to
forward his email to the group, but they haven't woken up yet in CA.

Becky Swanson
Benchmark Publications Group, Inc.
Excellence in FrameMaker training


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thomas Gier" <thomas.gier@imperia.net>
To: <framers@omsys.com>
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 5:03 AM
Subject: Re: Rumour: FM really is dead


Chuck Hastings schrieb:
> Hello Framers,
>
> MSWord driving out FrameMaker is simply one more
> corollary to Gresham's Law, like
>
>     Bad software drives out good.
>
>
> How would Adobe feel about the Linux open-software
> folks creating a free lookalike, to be ready whenever
> FrameMaker support officially gets deep-sixed, to be
> called maybe
>
>     `FlameMaker?'

Assumed that Adobe stops further FM development wouldn't it be an option
to make the source code publically available and let the open source
community take over?

I'm sure there are lots and lots of coders around the world who are
eager to maintain and enhance such a great software. This would sooner
or later bestow us a Linux version of Framemaker :) ...

Just my 2cents ...

Cheers
Tom Gier

--
Techn. Writer
Imperia AG / Cologne - Germany


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