Re: Flash Player premium features

2012-03-30 Thread Tomislav Pokrajcic
ASP.NET frameworks are not transferred to the community, they just opened the source and applied the Apache license. Microsoft still has to approve every patch. Adobe did that with Flex way back in 2008. AFAIK the problem with Adobe was that it didn't have well established model (and resources)

RE: Flash Player premium features

2012-03-30 Thread Thomas Sammons
I just saw the MS release about putting ASP.NET MVC, Web API, Razor (asp.net web pages) out as open source to CodePlex under the Apache license, and the response was completely opposite of Adobe's handling of Flex. Pretty much sums up how badly Adobe botched it.

Re: Flash Player premium features

2012-03-28 Thread JP Bader
e foot (and our feet too) way, > but they really had little choice.  They were hemorrhaging money. > > Mark > > -Original Message- > From: Martin Heidegger [mailto:m...@leichtgewicht.at] > Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 9:23 AM > To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org > S

RE: Flash Player premium features

2012-03-28 Thread Mark Fuqua
Flash Player premium features > They did it in a stupid, shoot yourself in the foot (and our feet too) > way, but they really had little choice. They were hemorrhaging money. I can't help comment on that - the same November press release that announced restructuring and 750 people lai

Re: Flash Player premium features

2012-03-28 Thread Peter Elst
> They did it in a stupid, shoot yourself in the foot (and our feet too) way, > but they really had little choice. They were hemorrhaging money. I can't help comment on that - the same November press release that announced restructuring and 750 people laid off celebrated their "record revenue q

RE: Flash Player premium features

2012-03-28 Thread Mark Fuqua
2012 9:23 AM To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Flash Player premium features Hi Giorgio, I honestly don't really care about it. As a web developer I am not getting Flash projects anyways due to last years marketing and because agencies like buzz words. As a app developer I

Re: Flash Player premium features

2012-03-28 Thread Martin Heidegger
Hi Giorgio, I honestly don't really care about it. As a web developer I am not getting Flash projects anyways due to last years marketing and because agencies like buzz words. As a app developer I do not care of this particular feature as I will not be affected (rarely a app really needs the f

Re: Flash Player premium features

2012-03-28 Thread Igor Costa
Adobe still doesn't know how to make money with Flash Player and still struggles to fail attempts, like this one. Maybe this sound gross for some sensitive people. But this is true. And this isn't something really new, they wrote that in road map http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplatform/whitepape

Flash Player premium features

2012-03-28 Thread Giorgio Natili
Hi All, I know that Flex is not related to the gaming but I would love to know which is the feeling of the mailing list about this news http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/premium-features.html. In my opinion it will be used again against the Flash platform, what do you think? Giorg