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Your article is right on target on this issue and I think this is a great piece. Another macro-wide issue is that no matter what we do in the FOSS community we cannot control market forces/consumer/corporate choices. Arguably these economic actors put Adobe in the position it is in as a result of the many factors you outlined. As a result we cannot force the "invisible hand" to implement technology X over technology Y as consumers/companies/etc are generally unaware of technology. In an more expansive sense never mind them understanding FOSS issues on any deeper level. Legal headaches of proprietary software and patents are also a major hurdle. Add to this the fact that monopolistic players common practices are not only encouraged, endorsed and are not regulated under the current US administration. It begs the question how regulators allowed Adobe to buy Macromedia. It really begs the necessity of an open source FOSS project/technologies achieving dominance in the marketplace and supplanting the likes of Adobe/MS/etc. WE have some of the best and brightest within the FOSS community. It can be done. Hell 10 years ago people made fun of Linux and look where it is now. You do identify a significant market opportunity.... =)

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