The Adobe Web Team uses Mach-II, Transfer and ColdSpring among other things. But they're not something being bundled with a product for sale like CF, they're just part of the website.
t On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 1:48 PM, s. isaac dealey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why not use one of the many CF Wiki apps that are out there? > > > > It doesn't matter to me one way or the other. I'm just saying that if > > you go to a site that is promoting a product using another product.. > > It just looks bad IMHO. > > Actually there can be some sticky issues with using code that's been > provided by someone else in the community. A while back when I was in > the Adobe Community Experts program, we had a conference call in which > we talked with the CF engineering team about the next release (which > ultimately became CF8/Scorpio), although this was before the beta. > Anyway there were some other things discussed on the call, one of which > being a community portal for ACE and UG Managers (which they didn't have > yet although they do now). > > At the time I think Mike Dinowitz had offered to contribute some time > coding for the portal and there was a kind of hesitated demuring from > the Adobe side of the conversation. I don't think they ever actually > said yes or no, but one other thing that had been mentioned was that > they had to be careful about how they marketed the ACE program even, > that they couldn't particularly agressively pursue people to become > members because they had to be careful about the laws regarding their > relationship to the team members... > > they were concerned about there being an appearance of either > preferential treatment or possibly abusing the community for their > contributions since the ACE members are non-paid and Adobe is a > for-profit company. > > My recollection of the specifics is a little fuzzy, so I apologize if > I'm a little off in my description. But the basics were legal issues > surrounding the contribution of work done "for hire" for a commercial > entity (Adobe) by another commercial entity (ACE member) but done for > free. And I imagine that may potentially extend toward the use of other > even open-source CF applications. I'm not saying it does -- just that it > may -- I don't know the specific laws in question. > > In retrospect actually I don't think it was Adobe yet, I think that was > still the Team Macromedia program. But anyway, my fuzzy recollection > aside, there are sometimes other issues in question. :) > > > > > -- > s. isaac dealey ^ new epoch > isn't it time for a change? > ph: 781.769.0723 > > http://onTap.riaforge.org/blog > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:315627 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
