Adobe Plays the Open Source Card
February 11, 2012
Thetus endorses Flex and Flash in “The Adobe Flex Open Source Hubbub.” Adobe Flex, long used to develop applications for the Adobe Flash Player, is now being unleashed on the open source community. The write up states:
The Flex SDK is already available to the open source community, but under the control of Adobe, meaning that they solely have the power to actually make any changes to Flex. Now Adobe has officially decided to relinquish this control and send Flex off into the great wide, open source world. . . .In order to cement ongoing commitment to Flex in the community, Adobe has a proposal in place with the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) to guide the future of Flex.
Under Apache’s program, changes to software development kits are voted on by contributors in the community. We applaud Adobe for taking this step.
What about HTML5? We’re still not there yet. Stay tuned for further developments. Open source may not be a life saver for either Adobe or Hewlett Packard. What is it? A way out with some face saving?
Cynthia Murrell, February 11, 2012
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