OSS

Flex SDK Source does not an “open source” project make

The title of this post is a topic that has fired me up for a really long time. It is the idea that spurred me to get involved with some of the open source cfml frameworks that I use. Fusebox is actually a really great example of this. At CFUnited 05 and later Frameworks conf that year many people were talking about the fact that while Fusebox was technically open source, no one had any idea...

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Why am I so anti-corporation?

When I saw that Macromedia was being bought by Adobe I felt like the rug had been pulled out from under me. When Microsoft invested in Facebook, I didnt wait to see the ramifications, I closed my account. Now I see that MySql has been bought by Sun, and my first thought was “Time to learn Postgres”. But here is the thing, Adobe has done great things with Macromedia’s products....

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