> I hope for Adobe’s sake that he’s being disingenuous about these issues; otherwise the co-chairman of their board is completely ignorant of how their flagship products are perceived by many Mac users.
via [daringfireball.net](http://daringfireball.net/2010/05/paczkowski_geschke)
This article is a very interesting read. Gruber reacts to an interview of Adobe’s Chuck Gescheke by John Paczkowski.
My take is that Gescheke is toeing the company line here. He can’t possibly believe a lot of what he’s saying about Flash being open, cross-platform development having no downsides, etc. He’s too smart to actually believe any of that.
I love how Gruber nails it at the end of the article. Gescheke tells his interviewer that Adobe hasn’t opened Flash up to a standards body to maintain because they don’t want to do “design by committee.” Which is exactly Apple’s stance with iPhone OS. The only difference is that Apple has never claimed that iPhone OS is open.
