Open Sourcing Flex
Last week I bumped into Ted Leung at a party near Moscone in San Francisco. Since he wasn’t attending the conference, and he normally works from home here in the Northwest, I assumed he was doing something interesting. He wouldn’t give me many details, and I figured he would blog about it soon. Turns out he was (among other things) lobbying Adobe to open-source Flex.
From what I can tell, Adobe looks to be trying to make some news out of thin air right now. As Ted observes, it’s a promise to open up some really non-essential parts of the platform. This can’t be too exciting to Google or Mozilla, so I assume it’s just an attempt to generate a bit of incremental goodwill.
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Update: John Dowdell at Adobe accuses me of hiding my Microsoft affiliation, suggesting “sockpuppetry and skullduggery”. Considering that this post was categorized as “Life at Microsoft” and the “about” link prominently displayed at top-right is clear about where I work, one would expect that to be clear. After 7 years of blogging and never having been accused of hiding my affiliation, a google on my name or the name of the blog reveals my employment as well. But just in case anyone reading this post is still confused, I WORK AT MICROSOFT! (How that makes Adobe’s announcement more or less significant, I don’t know)
Update 2: John offered to buy me a beer, so I guess I’ll chill out about it 
I even blogged about using Flex to build a sample Apollo app last week, so it’s not like I’m a total shill!