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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RE: Perhaps Adobe is feeling the heat
by anevilyak on Fri 27th Apr 2007 04:54
in reply to "Perhaps Adobe is feeling the heat"
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I wonder if Microsoft's announcement of Silverlight is putting some heat on Adobe. I wouldn't be surprised if the Flash engine is released under the Mozilla license too. When Microsoft pushes their plugin release onto Windows Update overnight millions of users will support it. A similar thing happened to the Real media plugin. A lot of the news sites I used to visit switched from Real to Windows media. Monopolies are tough to stand against.Edited 2007-04-27 01:10
Realmedia partially buried themselves too. Let's face it, the audio/video quality was largely very poor, and iirc the installer was pretty much infested with adware. I know lots of people were very very happy to ditch that thing.
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2005-11-12
I wonder if Microsoft's announcement of Silverlight is putting some heat on Adobe. I wouldn't be surprised if the Flash engine is released under the Mozilla license too. When Microsoft pushes their plugin release onto Windows Update overnight millions of users will support it. A similar thing happened to the Real media plugin. A lot of the news sites I used to visit switched from Real to Windows media. Monopolies are tough to stand against.
Edited 2007-04-27 01:10