Bloatware
"In its day, Flash was the kind of product Adobe does so well; like Reader, so handy and straight forward they become near-ubiquitous"
In their day, macromedia flash and adobe reader were small, tightly written programs which did one function.
Adobe kept bloating their featureset and adding more bugs.
WRT gripes about the BBC, recall how long it took for them to support MP3 instead of proprietary-codec-only broadcasts (do they broadcast in ogg yet?)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
