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AIR will stay proprietary, it seems

AIR will stay proprietary, it seems

Posted Feb 29, 2008 15:24 UTC (Fri) by AJWM (subscriber, #15888)
In reply to: AIR will stay proprietary, it seems by coriordan
Parent article: Adobe to deliver AIR for Linux (eWeek)

Indeed.

If they really wanted to "make nice with the open source community" they'd release the source
to AIR and it would get ported to the Linux platform in short order.  Instead they're
developing a (presumably, x86-only) Linux (what, no BSD?) version in-house.

Personally I prefer free air ;-)


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