Adobe Unveils Open Source Library

anamexis writes "Adobe premiered (no pun intended) opensource.adobe.com recently. The first two libraries available, titled Adam and Eve, respectively, take on complex GUI issues in applications. They are written in C++ and have been released under the MIT License, an OSI-Approved Open Source License."

Comments

If is looks like the acroreader for linux...

[jsheedy]

We are in for treat.

Adam & Eve?

[carninja]

Insert Cain & Abel joke here...

uhoh

[justforaday]

Combine these with an Apple and you have the downfall of mankind...

Re:uhoh

[zerblat]

But what happens when you use Adam and Eve with Darwin?

Re:uhoh

[maxwell demon]

You get Evolution, of course!

adam - overambitious?

[dhbiker]

from the webpage:

The most ambitious library, Adam, stems from the intuition that the logic behind a simple human interface can be distilled to a function:

f(x) -> x'

Is it just me but does this not sound a little to broad a definition of a library? I mean I can write anything like this:

My most ambitious library (The_Meaning), stems from the intuition that the logic behind the entire universe can be distilled to a function:

f(x) -> x'

obviously there is much work to be done on "The_Meaning" but when it is finished it will do everything (and the answer will turn out to be a disappointing 42 ;-) )

Let me volunteer

[Swamii]

For the love of God, Cain't they find better names? Just right now, I was Abel to think of a few just off the top off my head. My mind is being Flooded with ideas for software names, in fact. Funny story, I used to Noah guy who could Babel out a hundred names on command...what a Nimrod that guy was.

Re:Let me volunteer

[Xiaran]

Enoch already with the puns.

Re:The GIMP

[jeffy124]

shortest license I ever saw was the "Beerware" license. Went something like this:

Copyright (c) xxxx Joe Q Programmer. Permission granted to use this thing however you want, subject to the condition that if you see me on the street, you buy me a beer.