I was recently talking to an acquittance met at PHP Dev about Flash’s move into open source. As most of my reader’s will probably know the latest ActionScript code was donated to the Mozilla Foundation. It was the single largest donation of code in history and appeared to be a move to solidify Mozilla’s position in the development of the new JavaScript 2 standard.
I have always thought that Adobe have a semi-educational air to them. In the same way that Google do. Google have always stayed close to their origins at Stamford whereas their major rivals Yahoo and MS have always had very commercial airs. It was the same with Adobe and Macromedia. Macromedia were always the more corporate of the two whereas Abobe has been viewd as somewhat of an institution. Relying on the quality of there products rather than marketing drives.
What my talk with my freind had me thinking is that all the major web technologies are either open source, open standard or free. It is an interesting business model of providing free software/code, but charging for support and training. My question is, are Adobe going down this route? They have made a lot of advanced in the open source arena. Is this just a promotion technique, or is this a change in their business model.
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Gust post from Tony Arridge, web developer at Shinny Shack Gift Ideas.
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