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Linked by Adam S on Thu 26th Apr 2007 19:30 UTC, submitted by Flatline

Adobe Systems plans to open-source Flex, its development framework for building Flash and Apollo-based applications. The company on Wednesday is expected to announce the move, which will start when it releases a beta of the next version of Flex, code-named Moxie, in June.

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Nice Move!

by kap1 on Thu 26th Apr 2007 19:46 UTC

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2006-05-12

Wish they would open source Flash too.

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RE: Nice Move!

by samad on Thu 26th Apr 2007 22:16 in reply to "Nice Move!"

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2006-03-31

Since Flex has a compiler, reverse engineering Flash to produce an improved open-source implementation will be a lot easier and faster.

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RE: Nice Move!

by kajaman on Fri 27th Apr 2007 06:46 in reply to "Nice Move!"

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2006-01-06

They should have open sourced flash player at first place. If they want flash to become some sort of standard, like OSI or ISO, they must do it. On the other hand, recent cooperation with Mozilla Foundation can be a good sign.

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