Hi guys,
I hope to see you all at SWF Forward in september... and maybe at
SWF in the Can next year!
If it sounds ridiculous to us, it will probably sound ridiculous to our
friends at Adobe too (except perhaps the legal department, but that's a
legal department, filled with lawyers -- 'nuff said.) Thus, I can only
assume that Adobe will be making some concessions for
festivals/communities. It would be unthinkable for them to ask
FlashForward or Flash In The Can to change their names.
Remember, we're not trying to make Flash the next big secret. It already
is somewhat of a secret outside of its own community and we're trying to
get the word out to other developers. One way of doing this is
(drumroll) actually getting the word out there as much as possible.
If everything, from third-party tools to communities to conferences were
to be called SWF-this-or-that, it would make sense to refer to the SWF
Platform instead of the Flash Platform. I'm sure that's not what Adobe
intends at all.
I'd say let's give them some time to sort this out internally and see
what happens. Ideally, I'd like to see a simple, human-readable (not
lawyer-speak -- although it can be backed up by one, ala CreativeCommons
licenses) page somewhere, created solely for the benefit of the Flash
community, that specifically states how/when the Flash trademark can be
used.
It's unfortunate that this matter was not better managed by Adobe's
legal department who, IMHO, should have spoken to PR before making this
public but I'm sure that this is something that we'll get sorted out
eventually.
Aral
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