Alliare did not make flash for macromedia/adobe
these folks did -
I have flash animations with functionality that were up on the web 2 years before this guy came into the picture. Stop the tit for tat crap.
With the first self hosted DCR docs on the web and much flash development, I luv flash as a API over the clunky director API. But I also use many other tools to create content for clients and myself.
From a Apple point of view - Jobs is right most Flash apps suck - they suck in poor loading screens and can suck memory when poorly constructed. With an plugin or player it is or it is not. There is NO middle ground of some flash and new users hate crashed PCs or locked screens.
I have used Shockwave and now flash to create cross-platform applets because i know the limitation s of each platform (Mac-Windows-Web) not because of the high end options these platforms provide.
From the Aukaurant CDRom(90s) to my Piece on TaintedMedia(2008) the main rule of thumb has been dont use OS specific API calls - (.net anyone) and it just works.
For Alliare to write a several hundred word screed about how he made Flash what it is and bla bla bla. iS just a waste of text space.