Re: FLASH: MM Please Respond: Flash 4 Developers' Future to beCrippled by AOL/Netscape NEGLECT? (Netscape/FlashPlugin *ongoing*SNAFU'S) [was: RE: FLASH: OT: Macromedia upgrades . . for Troy]

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At 18.17 -0400 2000.04.07, I "innocently wondered", aloud:


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>

>MM will you please confirm or deny:

>

>Is AOL/Netscape TOTALLY ANTAGONISTIC toward ALL Flash 4 Developers?

>

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At 16.34 -0700 2000.04.07, John Dowdell reached 

WWWWAAAAYYYY----BBBBAAAACCCCKKKK into his hindmost pocket, and found 

his last remaining shred of control over any possible/hypothetical 

proclivities toward verbosity, and (m)uttered:


>Deny.


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At 16.53 +0100 2000.04.07 [ -- ????!!!! -- ], Neal Cabage somehow 

jumped into the PAST, BEYOND the point at which I'd sent my original 

post [Neal, please fix your calendar/clock/timezone!], and, from that 

point in the DISTANT PAST, prophesied his response to a response 

(from JD) to a post that I hadn't yet even written (!), thusly:


>Toward Flash developers specifically?  I would say that AOL has been this

>way with their general standards belligerence since day 1!!!


Why shouldn't they be, toward anyone other than MS?


*$$* rules in CorporateThinkLand.


>Now that they own and are "improving" Netscape,


If I'm engaged in "improving my looks", with regard to the "next 

'target'/'woman'-out-there", you can bet I might go for hitting that 

proverbial home run, no matter HOW I may need to tweak my 

presentation.


I *can* be a SLUT FOR $$, too ...


It's all about whatever-turns-one-on; out there in 

CorporateThinkLand, seems to me, it's about *$$ as #1*.


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At 18.57 -0400 2000.04.08, DSG wrote:


>It would be plain silly for AOL/NS to ignore flash... but, just say they

>were, it would be totally stupid for macr to tell us that they are and

>watch a lot of us stop using flash.


**THANKS** DSG!


I was gonna get to that, later in this post.


MM is no dummy (obviously). I'd never really expect ANY MM Rep, *even 

JD*, to be *allowed* by MM to admit anything even close to 

"inside-the-company *feeling*".


I was just probing for clues.


>Oh, which leads me to... Hey Macr, when is the flash browser coming out?

>Aww c'mon.. just put an html rendering engine into the flash player and

>cut out all this NS/IE nonsense ;)

>

>DSG (wishes Macr bought NS)


KS is happy that they *didn't* (*despite* the apparent feelings of 

Dorian and Laura "to the contrary" :-) ); MM has its/their collective 

hands *full*, already, with those of us, including me :-) , who use 

anywhere from 1 to 4 to 5 to G-knows-how-many MM products!


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Stock tip offa the top of my head: if ANY 

CorporateEntityOrComboThereof ever realizes that there is a HHUUGGEE 

market "OUT HERE" for a MERELY *ADEQUATE* browser, I believe that 

"they" will make $1 Billion, easily.


[Have you read this meme *here*, from me, first?]


(Wouldn't YOU pay, say, $49.99 (FREE SHIPPING) for a *decent GD* browser?)


I'm placing my money on the Apple/EarthLink Alliance:


FIRST OF ALL, Apple *groks* Humans-and-Their-Brains ... just search 

at google on "human interface" (no quotes) and see what I mean.


Plus, MindSpring, my former favorite, has merged with EarthLink.


Plus, EarthLink and Apple are apparently underway with a project to 

make [to make a long story *too* short] Internet Access for NEWBIE 

IMAC BUYERS *as mindless* an effort as the DREADED ALTERNATIVE of 

plopping a GODDAM AOL "FREE" CD into one's CD drive, etc. etc.


2nd stock tip: ANY AOL stock owners should watch the progress of all 

of those class action suits that are starting to happen to AOL. 

You've only seen the tip of the iceberg; aol (lower case intentional) 

THOUGHT that it could GET AWAY WITH *FLEECING* it's *customers* 

ROYALLY ... putting damned invisible files on their hard drives, fer 

C's Sakes ... I'M OUTRAGED!


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TO THOSE OF YOU WHO USE AOL:


AREN'T *YOU* "OUTRAGED" AT THIS INTRUSION UPON YOUR PERSONAL PROPERTY 

(YOUR HD)? I'VE HEARD THAT THEY PUT *INVISIBLE" FILES ONTO YOUR HD TO 

MAKE IT VERY DIFFICULT FOR YOU TO  YOU TO SIGN UP WITH MAJOR ISP 

ALTERNATIVES TO AOL.  --  ?


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... THE HEIGHT OF ARROGANCE, AND THE HEIGHT OF STUPIDITY.


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Of course, as always, these words that flow from my fingertips ARE 

MERELY AND ONLY *EVER* INTENDED TO BE READ AS *MY OPINIONS* ... much 

of what I write is fiction, as many of you know, and, as many *more* 

of you probably suspect.


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To MM: nice job, overall, with the customer contact. THAT is why I am 

with YOU, and not with Adobe.


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At 17.52 -0800 2000.04.08, R wrote:


>by the way, for all those who think Macr has ignored the issue:

>

>Comments from Troy Evans from bug 34827:

>

>NETSCAPE TEAM,

>

>In reviewing Preview release 1 of Netscape 6(mozilla) it seems there 

>are <snip>


THANKS for that, R.; VERY GREAT post IMO. Please keep typing!


Best to All,


Ken Sherwood


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