Bimmel! Bimmel! Alle mal herhören!

Adobe is announcing plans to open source Flex under the Mozilla Public License (MPL). This includes not only the source to the ActionScript components from the Flex SDK, which have been available in source code form with the SDK since Flex 2 was released, but also includes the Java source code for the ActionScript and MXML compilers, the ActionScript debugger and the core ActionScript libraries from the SDK. The Flex SDK includes all of the components needed to create Flex applications that run in any browser - on Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux and on now on the desktop using “Apollo”.

http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Flex:Open_Source
Bravo Adobe, sehr gute und weitsichtige Entscheidung. Gerade auch, weil die im RIA-Bereich den warmen Atem von Open Laszlo schon im Genick spüren.

Das hat natürlich auch Tech Crunch tief bewegt. Read all about it. Dieser Schritt wäre doch auch eine gute Gelegenheit für die Open Source Community, die Vorbehalte gegen die pösen proprietären Puben von Adobe fallen zu lassen.

Posted on April 26th, 2007 von Franz
Filed under: RIA, Flex