RE: It Stinks

["Hutchings, Christa" <cwhutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, if I had a suspicious mind, I'd wonder if Adobe was trying to court
Microsoft in some way, but fears offending them by continuing to push FM. So
Adobe stops supporting FM, Microsoft is happy because people start switching
to Weird for their tech pubs, and Microsoft then cuts a big deal with Adobe.
Adobe wins, Microsoft wins, we lose.

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Chris Welch-Hutchings
Senior Technical Writer
Home Wireless Networks, Inc.
mailto:cwhutchings@homewireless.com
http://homewireless.com





> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Dan Emory [SMTP:danemory@primenet.com]
> Sent:	Tuesday, March 30, 1999 2:12 PM
> To:	Sarah Stegall; Free Framers
> Subject:	Re: It Stinks
> 
> At 10:34 AM 3/30/99 -0800, Sarah Stegall wrote:
> >I figured something like this was coming when I
> >went to MacWorld in San Francisco in January, and
> >could find no one at the sprawling Adobe exhibit
> >booth who wanted to talk about FrameMaker. 
> >Despite Adobe's official protestations, I see no
> >evidence that the company is interested in
> >perpetuating or supporting this product beyond the
> >bare minimum necessary.
> ===================================================
> Name me another software company putting on a big presence
> at a major trade show that would refuse to talk about one
> of its products, unless explicit instructions had been
> issued from on high that the booth people were not
> to talk about it even when asked.
> ====================================================
> >I kept getting advised by
> >the booth personnel to switch to PageMaker.
> ==================================================
> Perhaps Adobe needs to change its logo from the letter
> A to a graphic depicting a snake with forked tongue.
> Either that, or we should interpret the letter A
> in the logo to be the Scarlet Letter.
> ====================================================
> >It's
> >insane.  I dunno about the rest of the world, but
> >Frame is THE defacto Wintel publishing program in
> >Silicon Valley.  Just take a look at any tech
> >writing job offer.  
> ===============================================
> And since Adobe lives in Silicon Valley, they know
> that fact very well, which makes the behavior you
> described at MacWorld in their own backyard
> (San Francisco) even more ominous.
> =====================================================
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