Linux, the Next Battleground for Closed Source Software Development
From the recent spate of open source project acquisitions by large software vendors to the increasingly popular model of offering paid “enterprise” versions of open source software, we’ve all noticed the changes in the open source community. Some consider these trends part of the maturing of the open source software market, while others view these trends as potentially dangerous to fundamental open source concepts. Things may have just gotten worse.
Adobe’s recent announcement of its AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) platform for Linux is an attempt to get open source developers and users to buy into Adobe’s proprietary application delivery platform. AIR is designed to allow web developers to deliver “desktop” style applications to users, developed using Adobe’s RIA (Rich Internet Application) tools such as Flash and Flex.
Air’s main competition in the Windows world is Microsoft’s .NET platform and Silverlight. Unlike Novell’s Mono project which is a Linux based open source implementation of Microsoft’s .NET framework, Adobe’s AIR platform is fully closed with no source code available. The Mono project has been criticized for enticing potential open source developers to adopt Microsoft technologies, and some have called Mono a danger to GNU/Linux because of this.
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