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…and A Moment of Coolness

Let’s not overlook a Moment of Coolness (see previous posting): I was able to log a bug against the Flex framework in Adobe’s public bug database, and refer to it in an online post. This is some real progress towards openness, and a milestone for the platform. It bodes well for the health and progress of Flex.

There’s been a lot of discussion of Silverlight vs. Flex (see Grant Skinner’s excellent article), but one point I haven’t heard come up much is this: how long might it be before Microsoft goes open source with Silverlight, or reaches a comparable point on the openness curve? My fingers want to type, “probably never”, but my brain says to do my homework, and — in fact, there is a “WPF Feedback Center” that, while not quite a bug database, is a searchable issue DB that anyone can read (but not everyone can post to). While this does not cut the mustard, it is pretty good behavior for Big Redmond. Don’t count them out of the game.

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