Adobe To Donate Flex SDK To Open Source Community

Posted by timothy on Tuesday November 15, 2011 @04:01AM 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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Re:NO NO NO by Merk42 · 2011-11-15 04:36 · Score: 4, Informative

You do realize HTML5 is far far more than just a video player right? Even so "HTML5 Video" doesn't inherently mean WebM nor H.264 as the format isn't part of the standard.
Re:FOSS attitude fail. by pebs · 2011-11-15 05:38 · Score: 5, Informative

Flex was already open source.. They are just pushing the responsibility of maintaining it to the community. Now if they were open sourcing the Flash Player, I would commend them for that as it could ease the pain a little of those stuck relying on this legacy technology.

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