I had the same initial reaction, but then thought "It's actually quite cool that adobe supports a project that builds something cool and useful based on adopted standards." Adobe has always been a mixed bag, some good and useful ideas (they created the PDF document format) and some rather less good ideas. (Though actually flash was cool at the time it was created. Everybody loved flash). So why not brackets a chance to earn a reputation on it's own.

[Spare me the Adobe Updater though, please.]

I thought exactly the same thing.. I was totally on board and excited until I saw, duhnduhnduhnn... "github.com/adobe/brackets"

Then I fled. And a lot of other people probably will, too -- Adobe has a lot of things to make up for with the kind of people who could actually make a meaningful contribution.

I'd say that launching an MIT-licensed project hosted in an environment that trivializes forking should go a long way to allay the fears of the majority of those kinds of people. On top of all of that, this is a line-of-business application for them -- it seems fair to assume that a web IDE is something in which Adobe will plan to maintain its investment.

-- Adobe has a lot of things to make up for with the kind of people who could actually make a meaningful contribution. --

Well, we have to start somewhere. We are actually doing a ton around HTML and Web:

http://html.adobe.com

(I work for Adobe)

> Adobe has a lot of things to make up for with the kind of people who could actually make a meaningful contribution.

Like what?

Personally, while I'm not happy with every move or product Adobe's ever made, I think by and large their contributions to the web have been a net positive.