Hello,
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of João Saleiro > "Maybe I'm a bit naive, but I think we should contact Adobe to know > definitely their position about OS, OsFlash community" I'm from Adobe: A) We think OSFlash and the OSFlash community is great. B) Many of us subscribe to the list and Adobe itself has contributed OS projects to OSFlash (Mike Chambers Javascript Connection kit). You may recall Kevin Lynch even showed OSFlash at one of the conference keynotes he did last year. Having a rich OS ecosystem around Flash is good for all of us. I won't comment on specific projects here because I don't know enough about all of them. C) RIAForge was driven by Ben Forta (an Adobe Employee) and Ray Camden (a member of the developer community) and a few others. Ben is a senior evangelist for us; he is also a member of the developer community himself and has written many books outside of his role as an Adobe employee. Like Mike Chambers, and Ted Patrick and others you may know, Ben was a prolific and visible member of the community before we (actually, Allaire in this case) hired him. We give people like Ben quite a lot of autonomy and while we have a lot of internal coordination, my belief is that folks like Ben and Mike are best for us and for the community when they are not tightly controlled by a tops down beaurocracy. So apologies for not communicating better internally and with this group in advance, but that is the kind of error one makes if one lets people do projects like this with some autonomy. D) It is not our intent to own this, but we did register the domain name. This was build in collabotion with Ray and other folks outside Adobe and it would be wrong for us to claim that it is a pure Adobe effort. E) It is related but very different in scope to OSFlash. I didn't expect a conflict. I hope both thrive. Hope this helps, David _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list osflash@osflash.org http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
