I reckon its freeness is just the usual Microsoft strategy to dominate a sector by giving away for free an inferior but "good enough (just)" version of what the existing leading program (Flash or Illustrator in this case?) has to charge for, because they can't subsidize a free product like Microsoft can with its oceans of money and endless cash cow Windows. It's actually a predatory monopolistic strategy that should be illegal, but Microsoft has been contributing regularly and heavily to the GOP for a while now, so their legal problems are becoming a thing of the past.
Not to say this might not be a good application, but it's always frustrating when M$ extends one of its gold-encrusted tentacles into yet another part of the computing world to suck out its life force and then assimilate the corpse.
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I reckon its freeness is just the usual Microsoft strategy to dominate a sector by giving away for free an inferior but "good enough (just)" version of what the existing leading program (Flash or Illustrator in this case?) has to charge for, because they can't subsidize a free product like Microsoft can with its oceans of money and endless cash cow Windows. It's actually a predatory monopolistic strategy that should be illegal, but Microsoft has been contributing regularly and heavily to the GOP for a while now, so their legal problems are becoming a thing of the past.Not to say this might not be a good application, but it's always frustrating when M$ extends one of its gold-encrusted tentacles into yet another part of the computing world to suck out its life force and then assimilate the corpse.
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Saturday, April 24 2004 @ 05:11 AM PDT