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Adobe To Donate Flex SDK To Open Source Community

Posted by timothy on from the free-bunnies-and-kittens dept.

New submitter ProbablyJoe writes "InfoQ reports that Adobe is to donate its web application SDK, Flex, to an 'an established open source foundation' — suspected to either be the Open Spoon Foundation (who have been working on an open source fork of Flex), or the more established Apache Foundation. Adobe has stated on its blog that they consider HTML5 to be a better technology for the future than its own Flex platform, causing frustration among developers who have used the platform for enterprise applications. Is this a generous contribution to the open source community, or just Adobe offloading another failing technology?"

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  1. Thanks? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is the technological equivalent of donating AIDS infected blood.

  2. Did hell just freeze over or something? by Robert+Zenz · · Score: 5, Funny

    Microsoft dumps stuff in favor of HTML5.

    Adobe dumps stuff in favor of HTML5.

    Can somebody check the temperature in hell, please?

    1. Re:Did hell just freeze over or something? by cshark · · Score: 3, Funny

      I think it would be awesome to see an html 5/canvas/css3 animation program. Crappy as it might be. I for one welcome our new ridiculous animated logo overlords.

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  3. Need FlashBlock for HTML5 by denis-The-menace · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now with HTML5 becoming the the preferred nuisance apparatus, can we create something to block them browser side?

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    1. Re:Need FlashBlock for HTML5 by Yvan256 · · Score: 3, Funny

      Sure. It's called "disable javascript" and it's already built-in all browsers worth using.

    2. Re:Need FlashBlock for HTML5 by icebraining · · Score: 1, Funny

      Sure, go ahead. Or do you mean "can someone else create it for me"?

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