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One more tick on the openess belt for Adobe. The barriers to adoption keep falling for Flash/Flex as an RIA platform. Now for the rampant promotion of 1 pixel swfs from them is all that’s left…but in the meantime.

Adobe is announcing tonight that the Flex SDK will be open sourced under the Mozilla public license, the same license that they open sourced the Action Script VM under (the Tamarin project). The move is just the latest in a trend of an increasingly open ecosystem around Flash and Flex which started with the Tamarin project.

More this from Ryan Stewart.

It’s interesting how they’re doing it progressively with the next release of Flex 3, first bugs then code. I think a lot of developers will be very excited about this. I wonder how this compares to the process went (is going) through. It makes sense from a revenue stand point if they’re only making money off builder and LCDS anyway. Smart move IMO.

“Open source co-creation is a powerful way to build a strong development community,” said James Governor of RedMonk.

I find James’ quote from the press release interesting as I suspect it’s going to be a long time before there is really co-creation of the Flex guts. Mind you I guess Fidelity is writing code for us. But who knows. I’m sure the development community will be able to find some new hacks and tricks with access to the code. I know we will:)
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