Adobe: friend or enemy of open source, open standards?
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| So is Adobe the friend of open source and open standards? It’s not so simple.
| Adobe is more successful than any other company in promoting proprietary
| standards on the internet. It ceased development of the open SVG standard for
| vector graphics, in favour of the proprietary Flash SWF.
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http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/10/18/adobe_open-source_friend_or_foe/
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Adobe Flex Builder Linux Public Alpha
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| Welcome to the Adobe® Flex Builder Linux alpha on Adobe Labs. Flex Builder
| Linux is a plugin-only version of the Flex Builder that you can use to build
| Flex applications on Linux.
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http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flex/flexbuilder_linux/
Why Flash 9 for Linux is taking so long
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| The good news is that, going forward, Linux shouldn't be out of sync
| with other platforms again. Betlem says that Adobe is planning to
| "simultaneously deliver Windows, Mac, Linux in unison. It's not our
| intention to have a delta between ship dates" for Flash 10.
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http://applications.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/11/21/2138216&from=rss
Adobe bashes open-source alternatives
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| It's well and good to look at things from the user's perspective, but in this
| case it leads to a false dichotomy. Loiacono appears to be considering only
| outside open-source alternatives such as Inkscape or the Gimp.
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| There's nothing technological stopping Adobe from releasing software that's
| both open-source as well as integrated and easy to use. But it's misleading
| to point to the shortcomings of others' open-source software as a reason why
| Adobe shouldn't open-source its own.
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http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9762967-7.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=NewsBlog
For Adobe, a tough lesson in (open-source) diplomacy
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| The brouhaha had to be painful for Adobe, a community-friendly company that
| likes to think of itself as a kinder, gentler outfit than arch-rival
| Microsoft . But here Adobe was, accused of using its overwhelming position in
| PDF software to make money at the expense of smaller companies -- the very
| sort of behavior that earned Microsoft a bad rap in Silicon Valley.
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http://blogs.business2.com/utilitybelt/2007/08/for-adobe-a-tou.html
Ryan, Open Source, and Flash
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| A few weeks back, I had dinner in Seattle with Ryan Stewart and Brian
| Zug. Over the course of several hours we covered a number of topics,
| including a crash course in open source software. Yesterday Ryan posted
| some of what he learned during our conversation, including his
| conclusions about whether or not open sourcing the Flash Player
| was a good idea.
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http://www.sauria.com/blog/2007/04/12/ryan-open-source-and-flash/
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