Adobe Competes Against Their Own

In reading Grant Skinner’s recent post on Adobe and Developer relations I recalled some past experiences of my own. First, for context, one of Adobe’s most recent lab-additions named Squiggly, the AS3 spell checker, is viewed as direct competition to a commercial project already established in the community. The discussion of whether Adobe should have bought out the project or at least consulted with the group is two-sided as you’ll read in Skinner’s comments. And, as Grant points out, this is certainly nothing new from the software giant.
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