Flash and the Open Web 19/11/08
Following on from the last post, I’ve just finished reading and interesting piece by Brad Neuberg about how flash can integrate with the open web. One of the comments of the comments I found interesting was:
“Over time Adobe has been become more and more open source friendly, contributing to open source projects and opening up their own products. However, these decisions have always been good business decisions and open sourcing Flash right now is a really bad business decision.”
A good point, though I really think open source is going to be one of, if not The, major business models of the future, and I believe most companies are going to have to go this way at some stage in order to compete in the market place. Microsoft will at some point (if they haven’t already) start eating into Adobes market and user base with their Silverlight product, so opening up Flash to the open web and significantly increasing the developers and the community involved in the product would, in my option, be a very good business decision.
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