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No kidding. Consider that as of April 2005, a Flex license had a $29,000 price tag (I haven't been able to find more recent numbers): http://tech.groups.yahoo

by jcl 19y ago

No kidding. Consider that as of April 2005, a Flex license had a $29,000 price tag (I haven't been able to find more recent numbers): http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/message/12200 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/message/12200 Then, two years later, they announced that the Flex SDK would be free and eventually open source: http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/26/140241 http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/26/14024... ...which was within a month after Microsoft released Silverlight.

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wmf 19y ago
Flex 1.x was a joke, but Flex Builder 2.0 was only $500. Making the Flex SDK (but not the IDE) open appears to be a case of openwashing, since most Flex developers are probably still buying the IDE.
sakri 19y ago
As far as I can remember, Flex1 was a "server". This (I suppose)was an excuse for the outrageous price. Users would upload their MXML and AS files, then the server would spit out '.swf' files to client requests. A compiled swf was cached until new MXML or AS files were uploaded. It was a "one licence" per company approach, rather than one licence per developer one.