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Response to Charlie Arehart, Oct 10 2021 regarding my concerns with sharing code on Adobe's Community Forums
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Response to Charlie Arehart, Oct 10 2021 regarding my concerns with sharing code on Adobe's Community Forums

https://gist.github.com/JamoCA/b087a0c4951fa2e2a8e47054dedc0fd2

I'm an "Unknown User"?

On Adobe Tracker, which uses the same exact terms, some of my comments have been credited to "User" (or "Unknown User").  I don't believe there's been any effort to fix it. I haven't tracked down all occurrences and wasn't notified that my identity had been stripped. This indicates Adobe has historic problems reliably identifying and retaining the information regarding the author of content.

Posting Content/Feedback = Surrender of Rights

Section 4.2 (no direct link to section; sorry) provides Adobe with "nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferrable license to use, reproduce, publicly display, distribute, modify (so as to better showcase your Content, for example), publicly perform, and translate the Content".  They state that they need this "for the purposes of operating or improving the Services and Software".  Which "software" are they referring to in this terms policy that seems to be blanket policy used generically on multiple platforms?  4.5 further goes on to say that any feedback submitted grants them a "non-exclusive, irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license to make, use, sell, have made, offer to sell, import, export, reproduce, publicly display, distribute, modify, and publicly perform the Feedback."  Is this regarding the forum software or the topic of ColdFusion?  The terms are not clear. According to the 4.5 terms, I'm under no obligation to provide them with ideas, suggestions, proposals, or bug or crash reports; although when doing this, I'd prefer to report using a separate platform where I'm not automatically surrendering my legal rights.

No Tracking; Poor Editing

I've also experienced (and reported) issues adding and editing content on Adobe's Community and Tracker platforms. (They recently publicly exposed my private email address and I had to contact Adobe via multiple channels before getting any response.) Forum comments regarding individual code samples can add unwanted noise to the discussion as there can often be multiple solutions to a single problem.

Summary

By posting source (and feedback) using a third-party, I intend to avoid issues where:

  1. Adobe forgets my identity when Adobe performs updates or due to error.
  2. I encounter issues adding/modifying/removing sample CFML as I deem necessary
  3. I'm not surrendering any legal rights to Adobe.

Using the Github GIST platform also makes it lot easier to subscribe to and track changes and for others to publicly comment rather than hoping that Adobe's forum can fill a similar role.

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