Document startups in chaos as Adobe discontinues Flashpaper

Re:Document startups in chaos as Adobe discontinues Flashpaper by meat-eater on Thursday September 04, 2008 @07:48AM (#294707)

I think scribd implements their own flash app to view documents. So they should be ok.

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Re:Document startups in chaos as Adobe discontinues Flashpaper by meat-eater on Thursday September 04, 2008 @07:50AM (#294709)

Let me add that again, this goes to show that depending on a vendor for an important technology in your startup can actually be risky. Using open standards are always the way to go.

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Re:Document startups in chaos as Adobe discontinues Flashpaper by mechanical_fish on Thursday September 04, 2008 @09:53AM (#294776)

Using open standards are always the way to go.

Well, no. Certainly not "always". You're absolutely right about the big risk, but sometimes the reward is worth the risk. Selling Photoshop plugins means being dependent on Adobe's decisions, but that doesn't mean you should go into business selling Gimp plugins instead.

What you have to do is keep the risk firmly in mind, and hedge it. Pay your insurance premiums.

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Re:Document startups in chaos as Adobe discontinues Flashpaper by trapper on Thursday September 04, 2008 @08:00PM (#295346)

Awesome & funny, this is why I love this site. Gimp plugins! ROFL

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Re:Document startups in chaos as Adobe discontinues Flashpaper by DenisM on Thursday September 04, 2008 @07:23PM (#295313)

And there I was, hopeful that people would stop submitting the scribd links because of this development. Oh well.

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