Re: Rumor about Framemaker - is it true?

[eric -dot- dunn -at- ca -dot- transport -dot- bombardier -dot- com]

bounce-techwr-l-106467 -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com wrote on 01/10/2005 05:02:17 PM:
> > Really, it's situations like this one that are driving 
> > me and a lot of others away from proprietary software.
> >

> An that's certainly a reasonable position to take, even ifit doesn't
> help all those people who are already heavily invested in 
> FrameMaker.

I don't see why the proprietary nature of FrameMaker is really a problem 
when there are many ways to migrate your information to other 
"proprietary" systems as well as "open" options.

Open source software can be abandoned as well. What happens if it losses 
popularity among developers and all development moves to the latest "in" 
project? And it's not necessarily a good investment of a company's time 
and money to develop software in a non-core activity.

Eric L. Dunn
Senior Technical Writer

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