Jeffry's correct. Adobe is in the business to make money. They make great tools because those tools sell and make money. The Flashplayer is one of the most ubiquitous platforms for distributing content created via the tools that Adobe makes and sells, so they have no incentive to give the FP away. FP is arguably one of the best delivery mechanisms for almost any content, with some of the best DRM and license management for almost any media. Yesterday's Spoon calls discussed this and Adobe's focus on Video (streaming and gaming). Adobe has no incentive to give away FP's source code. It makes money for them. Flex, in the grand scheme of Adobe's wallet, never made much of a dent. For a $4 billion company, if a product doesn't make more than $100million a year, it isn't going to be done. Flex never even came close to that, so it is going to Apache (and off of Adobe's expense sheet). We'll never know the exact break down of Adobe's revenue sources for sure, but FP contributes heavily to the bottom line. Flex to Apache is a business decision.
TL;DR Adobe won't give away FP's source code for myriad reasons. Just my $.02 summed up too quickly On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Jeffry Houser <jef...@dot-com-it.com> wrote: > On 2/3/2012 9:54 AM, FRANKLIN GARZON wrote: >> >> Well, Adobe put alot of efforts into html5, however if they open flash >> will be a risk if the comunity will grown flash vm, but if Adobe see that >> Flex grown more quickly in the hands from the community, I think they will >> also put efforts to extend flash. What do you say? > > If Adobe doesn't have a way to make money off Flex (or Flash for that > matter) it doesn't matter how much growth or success the community has. > > -- > Jeffry Houser > Technical Entrepreneur > 203-379-0773 > -- > http://www.flextras.com?c=104 > UI Flex Components: Tested! Supported! Ready! > -- > http://www.theflexshow.com > http://www.jeffryhouser.com > http://www.asktheflexpert.com > -- > Part of the DotComIt Brain Trust > -- JP Bader Principal Zavteq, Inc. @lordB8r | j...@zavteq.com 608.692.2468
