RE: FLASH: Flash 4

[David Mendels]

At 10:48 AM 4/21/99 -0400, Eric Smollin wrote a whole bunch of things about

Flash 4.


Hi all,


As many of you might know, Macromedia (and most software companies) do

conduct alpha and beta programs with a number of customers throughout our

product development cycle.  Those people are required to sign a

non-disclosure agreement--a legal document that requires them to keep any

and all information about such development versions of products

confidential. Clearly someone has violated that agreement, perhaps

(hopefully) inadvertently, but nonetheless this is illegal, unethical, and

damaging to Macromedia and our common interest in the success of Flash.


We are very excited about what we are working on with Flash.  We do not

have a final version, and we are not ready to announce anything. The

information that was posted here (and on FlashPad, and elsewhere?) is

transient info that could possibly be in future versions--what is written

there may or may not be in the final announced version, and many things

that may be in the final announced version may not be written there.  We

often experiment with things and speculate but do not include them in final

software, and we also often add things that may not be in a given

development build. The information was not intended for public distribution

and may be as misleading as it is interesting.  


So may I ask that if you have been part of this thread or others on this

topic, regardless of whether you are part of our "non-disclosed" beta

program, that you refrain from redistributing or discussing what was

clearly intended as private information.  I assure you when the time comes

(and we don't know when that is yet!) we will give this list all the info

we have and really look forward to engaging in a broader discussion about

future functionality in Flash.


I think for us as the developers of Flash, and you as Flash developers, we

share a common interest in its long term success.  To achieve that, we need

to be able to maintain confidentiality about development builds until they

are ready to announce, and in this age of the the net it is very hard to

maintain basic privacy so I ask you for your cooperation.


Anyway, thank you for your support of Flash, and I thank you in advance for

helping us to quiet this thread and get back to discussions of Flash 3.


Regards,


David Mendels

Vice President and co-General Manager, Web Publishing,

Macromedia


PS. No, I am not going to comment on the questions about 3D in future

versions of Flash at this time -;)


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David Mendels                               

Vice President and General Manager, 

Web Publishing, Macromedia

dmendelsmacromedia [dot] com

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