Adobe to open source Flex SDK
A few years ago I don't think anyone would have described Adobe as a company that took full advantage of the open source community. But that is all changing with the announcement today that Adobe plans to release the source code for the Flex SDK to open source under the Mozilla Public License (MPL). You can read the full press release here.
As James puts it: "Open source co-creation is a powerful way to build a strong development community. Adobe's decision to open source the Flex SDK is a radical move which should attract a new class of developer to the platform."
This is the fourth open/standard announcement by Adobe since the end of last year, first we contributed the source code for the ActionScript Virtual Machine to the Mozilla Foundation under the Tamarin project; then we announced the use of the open source WebKit engine in the “Apollo” project; and third we released the full PDF 1.7 specification for ISO standardization.
As the blogsphere starts commenting on this announcement I'll pull together the links. As always, if you would like more information, drop me an email.