After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out this bit o' wisdom:
> Recently it seems like the "Go Open Source or go down the wastebasket"
> realisation has become widespread. Even Adobe hopped on board yesterday,
> which could take them in route similarr to that of Sun Microsystems.
Is this what you're talking about, Roy?
http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Flex:Open_Source
Adobe is announcing plans to open source Flex under the Mozilla
Public License (MPL). This includes not only the source to the
ActionScript components from the Flex SDK, which have been available
in source code form with the SDK since Flex 2 was released, but also
includes the Java source code for the ActionScript and MXML
compilers, the ActionScript debugger and the core ActionScript
libraries from the SDK. The Flex SDK includes all of the components
needed to create Flex applications that run in any browser - on Mac
OS X, Windows, and Linux and on now on the desktop using
\u201cApollo\u201d.
Developers can use the Flex SDK to freely develop and deploy Flex
applications using either Adobe Flex Builder or an IDE of their
choice.
There's actually some irony in these developments. Microsoft gained
some of its power, in part, from providing tools and API documentation
to developers, making it easier for them to develop on Microsoft's
platform than on other platforms, and help Microsoft squelch much of the
competition in key areas.
Now the competition is working the same gambit, but with open source.
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