23 Responses to “Breaking News: Adobe Flash (Flex) goes Open Source”

1. Adobe opensources Flex « Scobleizer:
   April 25th, 2007 at 9:03 pm

   […] Video of our conversation this morning: http://www.podtech.net/home/podtech/2826/breaking-news-adobe-flash-flex-goes-open-sourc […]

2. Chris:
   April 25th, 2007 at 9:17 pm

   http://osflash.org/red5

   OMG, They open sourced their expensive media server!

   They are so nice.
   /sbin/service red5d start!

   No more licensing fees for me!
   Tanx Adobe!

3. Swaroop:
   April 25th, 2007 at 10:38 pm

   Flex is the developer toolkit to create Flash files, and that is going open source, not the Flash player

4. Adobe Flex Now Open Source:
   April 25th, 2007 at 10:51 pm

   […] See the video announcement below, via Podtech. […]

5. proxieslist.net:
   April 25th, 2007 at 10:55 pm

   […] See the video announcement below, via Podtech. […]

6. Ted Patrick:
   April 25th, 2007 at 11:18 pm

   Open Source Flex Links:

   http://www.onflex.org/ted/2007/04/flex-goes-open-source-mpl.php
   http://blogs.zdnet.com/Stewart/?p=353
   http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200704/042607Flex.html
   http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Flex_Open_Source_FAQ
   http://groups.google.com/group/flex-open-source/

7. Flexdude » Blog Archive » FLEX wird OPENSOURCE:
   April 25th, 2007 at 11:51 pm

   […] Flex FAQ Adobes Ankündigung bei Scoble Video […]

8. Factum Vicesimus Quartus » Flex, Adobe now announces you Open Source:
   April 26th, 2007 at 12:11 am

   […] Today, in an official press-release, Adobe announced strategic plans to make Flex open source under the Mozilla Public License (MPL). Check out the official press release and the info on Adobe Labs. David Wadhwani and Ely Greenfield explain Adobe’s decision a little more in this video. Great news! […]

9. Adobe Flex devient Open Source:
   April 26th, 2007 at 12:55 am

   […] Une vidéo est disponible ici, via Podtech. […]

10. Rafiq Elmansy:
    April 26th, 2007 at 1:08 am

    I was shocked when I saw the title of this video is written as “Adobe Flash (Flex) goes Open …”, I said to myself it is Flex or Flash. Most of the people know that Flex is build on Flash PLayer and AS3 technology, but the opened source is Flex not Flash an both are different products. Actually, many Flash designer and animators do not relay on AS3 coding much in their work. I hate to limit Flash to be just AS3 coding tool, when it is much more than that. I suggest to remove the Flash word from the title to avoid this confustion.

    Thanks alot!!

11. Flex fÃ¥r öppen källkod « Livet som webbproducent:
    April 26th, 2007 at 2:50 am

    […] Flex fÃ¥r öppen källkod Adobe har beslutat att släppa Flex som open source/öppen källkod. Vad betyder det för oss utvecklare? Ta en titt pÃ¥ vad tvÃ¥ personer ur Flex-teamet anser om det här steget: http://www.podtech.net/ […]

12. Hjælp mig nu - Blog » Flex bliver open source:
    April 26th, 2007 at 3:48 am

    […] Du kan se et videoklip med Ely Greenfield og David Wadhwani, der forklarer lidt om tanker bag, og grunden til, Flex rykker store dele af koden ud i open source miljøet. […]

13. Flashstar Duo Blog » Blog Archive » Flex wird OpenSource - Flash und ActionScript sind unsere Welt:
    April 26th, 2007 at 6:12 am

    […] Flex und OpenSource (Interview) Hinweis […]

14. ArsGeek - Free your inner geek » Adobe open sources Flex:
    April 26th, 2007 at 6:13 am

    […] David Wadhwani, VP of Flex Engineering and Ely Greenfield, Flex Architect discuss the Flex Open source announcement with Robert Scoble of PodTech. Click the icon, share the link: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. […]

15. Mike Chambers » Blog Archive » Open Source Flex and its impact on Apollo:
    April 26th, 2007 at 11:26 am

    […] Well, as I am sure you have heard by now, we announced last night that we will be releasing the Flex Framework and SDK under the open source Mozilla Public License (MPL). I am not going to go into too much details on the announcement, as it is covered in depth everywhere else (Ted Patrick has a post with a good over view and collection of links, and Robert Scoble has posted some videos about the news (1 and 2)). […]

16. Brilliant strike, Adobe! « PodTech Network:
    April 26th, 2007 at 2:14 pm

    […] Brilliant strike, Adobe! So Robert Scoble broke the news (congrats!) - Adobe opensources Flex, the programmer-friendly rich web application environment based on Flash, under terms of the Mozilla Public License. Check the story on Scobleizer and Podtech. It’s a homerun for the web 2.0 developers as well as a strike against Microsoft - just before the Mix07-event in Las Vegas. […]

17. Flex! Open Source!? « The World Wide Web According to …:
    April 26th, 2007 at 7:41 pm

    […] You can find a video of a discussion between Ely Greenfield and David Wadhwani about the plans to open source Flex and why. […]

18. Adobe flexes open source muscles « Octopz Blog:
    April 26th, 2007 at 10:02 pm

    […] Another interesting thing about today’s announcement is that, in addition to posting the standard press release and announcements on their corporate website, Adobe chose to get this news out to the developer community by having two senior members of the Flex team be interviewed exclusively by influential blogger and podcaster Robert Scoble. […]

19. Flex to go open source! at Entrepreneur Geek:
    April 30th, 2007 at 5:04 am

    […] This is a major move! A very strategic one I must say. Adobe is certainly trying to kill competition - whether it is OpenLaszlo, or the upcoming Microsoft technologies including WPF/E. Making Flex open source will not only get a lot more visibility for Adobe & Flex, it will also mean a lot more developers who can contribute to Flex, while Adobe focuses on Apollo as a delivery platform for Flex and HTML. I am sensing that Adobe’s got plans to push Apollo real hard. They may even have a couple of very strong products using Flex coming out in the near future. I wouldn’t be surprised if one of them is related to entertainment! […]

20. yeehaw:
    May 25th, 2007 at 7:50 pm

    So . . . according to the video, there is great interest in Flex and yet it’s going open source? Folks, this is all hogwash. Adobe, and Macromedia before it, failed utterly with Flex. It simply could not sell enough licenses to make a profit. Very few sites use Flex, and those that do were given free licenses (or licenses at steep discounts) just so Adobe could get some press. That’s the crux of the story. Also, Adobe is terrified of MS moving in on Flash. So, Adobe is hoping this will spark some interest in Flex and try to get more developers using its technologies instead of MS. In the long run, MS will probably win, but this isn’t a terrible idea. I just wish Adobe was up front about the reason instead of wrapping itself in the banner of open source.

21. Polin Armsley:
    October 29th, 2007 at 5:32 pm

    Check the story on Scobleizer and Podtech. It’s a homerun for the web 2.0 developers as well as a strike against Microsoft

22. someone:
    December 5th, 2007 at 11:46 pm

    It does not mean much as long as the Flash Player is not open sourced. As long as the applications you build in Flex is run by the not-open Flash Player Adobe has the control. What if the Flash Player encounters drastic changes over time? You are stuck with the old technology, old player.

23. Classic Scoble : The Architecture of Flash | PodTech.net:
    April 25th, 2008 at 9:32 am

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