Adobe open sources Flex SDK
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| The new open source Flex SDK and documentation will be available
| under the Mozilla Public License (MPL).
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http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=ADDCCAF8-EB7D-4933-9A1F-AD016A901756
Good step in the right direction. Like Sun, they might start with Java and
then open source much more, maybe even Flash and Adobe Reader. It's there
way to compete with Microsoft and their latest offerings, by aiming for
mindshare.
Related:
Adobe's Flash developers need to learn from Saudi Arabia
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| Its choice of a proprietary video compression codec makes a free
| replacement for Flash not only desirable, but necessary -- and I
| mean for business reasons, not just because of software ideology.
| If Adobe's management had done even a little cursory reading about
| the history of the oil business and OPEC, its Flash product line
| would not be heading for the ripe, green pickle that is inevitably
| going to hit it in the face within the next few years.
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http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/03/19/1719216
Why I don't think open source Flash is necessary
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| Ted Leung has a thought provoking post titled "Adobe wants to be
| the Microsoft of the web". From what I've been able to gather, Ted
| is a big open source advocate, so obviously he has some strong
| feelings about a platform that seems to be growing.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Stewart/?p=298
Linux video - but for whom?
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| Builder AU, the official media organ for the Australian Linux
| conference, which is underway in Sydney, has released video clips
| of Linux creator Linus Torvalds talking about kernel development.
|
| But GNU/Linux users, the intended target audience, are finding it
| difficult to view the same.
|
| The videos apparently need to be viewed using version 8 of the
| proprietary Macromedia Flash player or above. Fact is there has
| never been a Flash 8 for GNU/Linux. After 7, Macromedia chose to
| release version 9 - on January 16, six months after it was released for
| Windows.
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http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/8687/1090/
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