At the risk of sounding all Pollyanna, perhaps what Adobe is doing is actually good for the tech writing community. Perhaps it WILL inspire people to create other choices/other competition.
At least it is prompting the conversation. Nadine --- On Sat, 5/11/13, Jeremy H. Griffith <jer...@omsys.com> wrote: > From: Jeremy H. Griffith <jer...@omsys.com> > Subject: Re: Corporate madness - Adobe software to be subscription only > To: "framers@lists.frameusers.com" <framers@lists.frameusers.com> > Received: Saturday, May 11, 2013, 8:54 PM > On Sat, 11 May 2013 11:33:13 -0700 > (PDT), Writer > <generic...@yahoo.ca> > wrote: > > >I say we start a new company and create a competitor > >to FrameMaker! Who's with me? Anyone? Anyone? > > Well... we've had one on the back burner for several > years now. Basically it's an Open Source GPL project, > so zero financing needed, with a very basic core and > plugins independently installable for most of the > functionality. We called it "Omni 2.0", after the > very first product I wrote, the first screen-oriented > editor ever on CP/M 1.4 on 8080 (way before WordStar). > > If there really is much interest, we can set it up > as a SourceForge project pretty easily (we have a > couple of others on SourceForge). We're not set on > that name, or on much of anything else except GPL. > > Greed doesn't always have to win out... ;-) > > -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. > <jer...@omsys.com> > http://mif2go.com/ > _______________________________________________ > > > You are currently subscribed to framers as generic...@yahoo.ca. > > Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/generic668%40yahoo.ca > > Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. > Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and > info. > _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
