I think Adobe should stay proprietary, for the moment. They have a lead, let them exploit it.
Why should they throw out their brilliance to a world full of bean counters and bean counter exploiters? Were Adobe to make all the stack public domain, a billion Indians would descend on Mumbai claiming Flex proficiency available at a rate of $0.25/hr., and a million bean-counters would descend on American companies screaming *OUTSOURCE*, *OFFSHORE*!!!!!!! A few years later, there would be MASSIVE project failures in the US, as the outsourced projects failed to live up to the (long-gone) bean-counters' expectations. Oh, and there would be no actual US developers available to pick up the slack (you know: "Why follow that offshored career?", etc.) Oh, BTW, this past is already come to present. I'm living it right now. The bottom line is that bean counters are easily seduced, and the results of the seduction, like herpes, live on for a painful forever. Keep the Windows advantage until an open-source advantage shows. Business people are mostly stupid blind eyes and open stomachs. On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 1:01 PM, John Mason <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, you guess it. Adobe is uncertain about developing Flex Builder for > Linux. Apparently the flood of developers leaving Windows for Mac and Linux > isn't enough of a wake up call. > > Please vote and comment on this. It's pretty important. Frankly I'm > surprise it came up given the direction they are going with the SDK, BlazeDS > and AIR. > > http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FB-19053 > > > John > [email protected] > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this list, simply email the list with unsubscribe in > the subject line > > For more info, see http://www.affug.com > Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40affug.com/ > List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > >
