Agreed. But the Flash community needs to learn that hard lesson that any proprietary tech is bad in the long run, Macromedia may have been a different breed but

Agreed. But the Flash community needs to learn that hard lesson that any proprietary tech is bad in the long run, Macromedia may have been a different breed but Adobe just wanted to cash in on Flash and ultimately destroyed it. And by the way thanks Elop /s Macromedia, Nokia, what a track record... Ironically projects like Haxe will survive all that Fiasco, unfortunately, there was never a push for an Opensource flash authoring tool that could have replaced Adobe's.