Mon, 26 Jun 2006 11:05:47 -0700 Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > Business is business. I would congratulate Pixmantec for making a > good bundle on their work, and Adobe for recognizing that their > product had value which will likely now be enabling an even larger > community of photographers who use Adobe due to the excellent > reputation of the brand in producing creative graphics and imaging > software products. It's a win-win situation.
I don't care that much, probably because I was not that attached to RawShooter. I agree with Godfrey, that it is a standard practice for software companies, and indeed it looks like Pixmantec did very well. It is a win-win situation, but necessarily for consumers. Healthy competition (whatever you define as such) is usually good for consumers. Monopolization is bad (in the long run). Besides, Pixmantec is a small company which made it much more flexible compared to Adobe. Adobe is a large corporation with all idiosyncrasies typical for large companies. Very often political reasons (internal and external) can play large role in what goes into the new product, and what gets scrapped. I don't mean to bash Adobe, - it is a general trend. On another hand, Adobe owns more "know-how", has more resources and can afford more experimentation with new features. In any case, - we cannot do (or undo) anything, - so, - why panicing or regretting, - it won't help anything. So, let's just hope this aquisition will bring something new and positive. .. and hopefully the cycle will repeat with some other new good innovative company. Igor -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
