JD on EP

Jon,

There has been a notable silence concerning the removal of the PPC player as a free download. The silence is causing anxiety on the part of many folks that were developing applications and content for the PPC platform. Feeling a little like the carpet has been yanked and no information has been made available to quell that anxiety. I'm in that group.

Macromedia forum post with feedback

Flash developers blog responses

From the response, it seems like a small part of the population. Perhaps it's not worth Macromedia's time to respond to these folks?

Thanks for any information you can provide.

This is off-topic to "Adobe Trademark Guidelines", so I'll write little here.

I haven't done a weblog item here because I haven't had news to report. But if you'll check out my comments in the initial weblogs which brought it up, you'll see that better info on this is in the pipestream. This has to be a group decision, not my individual decision on a weblog, because there are lots of partner issues to handle too.

I don't know if the site has changed already, but keep an eye on Bill Perry's blog for fastest and most direct word on this.

(Recap: For worldwide pocket devices, the goal is to get these device-neutral capabilities baked into every device... a download/install can work for developers, but not for the public in this case.)

So, do the lawyers really think they can force anyone to listen to these restrictions just by saying so?

IMO, if a word becomes used generally in the culture as much as that is, lawyers can fight it all they want, but it's going to be used. (examples: kleenex, xerox, spam, etc)

It's always fun watching them try to hold back the tide with restraining orders though... ;-)