{"id":896,"date":"2010-01-26T21:26:24","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T02:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/896"},"modified":"2010-01-26T21:27:12","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T02:27:12","slug":"is-adobe-the-devil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/896","title":{"rendered":"Is Adobe the Devil?"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Nack makes an extremely rational and systematic analysis of how many voices on the Internet consider Adobe to be the Devil. Is Adobe and in turn Flash Player the antagonist of all that is good about the web? Are they set to destroy the evil proposed Html 5 standards because they might compete with Flash Player?<\/p>\n

Read and ponder. <\/p>\n

Sympathy for the Devil<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John Nack makes an extremely rational and systematic analysis of how many voices on the Internet consider Adobe to be the Devil. Is Adobe and in turn Flash Player the antagonist of all that is good about the web? Are they set to destroy the evil proposed Html 5 standards because they might compete with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd5QIe-es","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":301,"url":"https:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/301","url_meta":{"origin":896,"position":0},"title":"Adobe PDF files, not printable anymore?","date":"June 2, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Just announced .... Acrobat 9 includes support for embedded Flash (SWF) content. 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