Test-driving Adobe's Flash Player 9 beta
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| Interesting, eh? Adobe has swung back and forth regarding both Linux and
| open source in the past. Free software die-hards still regard Flash as
| unmitigated evil, but this fall we have seen Adobe donate its
| ActionScript virtual machine -- itself a big component of Flash 9 --
| to the Mozilla Foundation, and now it has released an open source
| (perhaps even free software) library for the player.
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| I am not rushing out to embrace Adobe as a free software stalwart
| (that will take relaxing the restrictions on the company's SDKs, and
| perhaps an open source Lightroom), but these small steps are
| commendable, especially for a company so entrenched in the
| proprietary software model.
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