Saying Something Nice About Adobe
December 10, 2009 by Jim · 4 Comments
In the past I’ve bashed on Adobe about costly software, broken extensions and lack of Linux support but today I have something nice to say!
Recently on the CFEclipse mailing list we were discussing the ColdFusion 9 dictionary file and someone mentioned it would be nice if we could simply use the one from ColdFusion Builder. I shot off an email to Adam Lehman from Adobe and honestly expected either a) no reply or b) a firm ‘No’.
But instead Adam did reply and indicated he’d “look into it”.
So I waited a few weeks knowing Adam is a busy person and emailed him again. And again he replied! He said it seemed like sharing the dictionary file was possible but he still had to ‘run it by legal’.
OK. Now we’re doomed I thought.
So I waited another week or so and bugged him again. And low and behold this comes across Twitter:
@thecrumb btw. I got Adobe VP approval to share the #ColdFusion Builder dictionary w/ CFEclipse!
So I’d just like to publicly thank Adam for following through on my inquiry, and thanks to Adobe for sharing their toys with the other kids!
Now about that Linux version of ColdFusion Builder…
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That is very cool, and definitely worthy of a public acknowledgment.
I wonder if that permission might also be extended to other CF IDE projects, ones not based on Eclipse. My guess would be no, but then again my guess would have been no re CFEclipse too.
Awww… thanks Jim. I just sorry it took so long, I never thought it would require the approval of an Adobve VP. However, once it got to the VP level it was a quick approval. Everyone is the chain thought it was the right thing to do. I’ll be sure to send you the latest copy. We still have a bit more work to do on CB before it’s released, but the dictionary should be relatively the same.
As far as sharing it with other IDEs, once it’s included in CFEclipse, it would fall under the Eclipse license. So we shouldn’t need to get explicit permission for any other use!
In regards to CB Linux, I would love to support it, but it’s tough to justify for v1. Adobe has a number of libraries we have to use internally that aren’t supported on Linux. So that means we would have to drop other features to find time to update the libraries. While we might not have ‘official’ support for Linux in v1, we’ve been supportive of some underground efforts to make it functional.
Of course CF itself fully supports Linux, including free offerings like CentOS!
- Adam
Awesome Jim,
The Adobe evangelist team are people who really matters, I being so close with that community since Macromedia times now Adobe. Adam he is one most smart people I know and he is always willing to help us.
Good luck Jim with your plans.