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So, who's going to start the petition to make this open source?

martey 13y ago
Why would Adobe make Fireworks open source when they plan to continue selling and updating the last version? "While we are not planning further feature development for Fireworks, we will continue to sell Fireworks CS6 as well as make it available as part of the Creative Cloud. We will provide security updates as necessary and may provide bug fixes. We plan to update Fireworks to support the next major releases of both Mac OS X and Windows."
- harrisonweber 13y ago
  No, I wasn't saying it would actually work ;)
danboarder 13y ago
There is a petition ( http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/adobe-com-release-adobe-fireworks-to-open-source http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/adobe-com-release-adob... ) and I posted it here on HN earlier, with some discussion going on there as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5666530 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5666530 One thing that came up in the discussion was that Adobe wouldn't open source due to proprietary internal content. However I replied this may or may not be true - Adobe has open-sourced several large projects. Flex (http://www.adobe.com/products/flex.html http://www.adobe.com/products/flex.html), for example is a big software product that Adobe switched to open source in 2007. From an article back then: "Ward outlined the transition as having the following steps: Today - Creation of Mailing List for Discussion Summer 2007 - Public Bug Database and Daily Builds Second Half 2007 - Flex 3 Released December 2007 - Read Only SVN Access, Patches Welcome 2008 - Committers with Write Access, Creation of Possible Subprojects " see: http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/04/flex-open-source http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/04/flex-open-source and: http://readwrite.com/2007/04/26/adobe_takes_fle http://readwrite.com/2007/04/26/adobe_takes_fle

Why would Adobe make Fireworks open source when they plan to continue selling and updating the last version? "While we are not planning further feature development for Fireworks, we will continue to sell Fireworks CS6 as well as make it available as part of the Creative Cloud. We will provide security updates as necessary and may provide bug fixes. We plan to update Fireworks to support the next major releases of both Mac OS X and Windows."

harrisonweber 13y ago
No, I wasn't saying it would actually work ;)

danboarder 13y ago

There is a petition ( http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/adobe-com-release-adobe-fireworks-to-open-source http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/adobe-com-release-adob... ) and I posted it here on HN earlier, with some discussion going on there as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5666530 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5666530 One thing that came up in the discussion was that Adobe wouldn't open source due to proprietary internal content. However I replied this may or may not be true - Adobe has open-sourced several large projects. Flex (http://www.adobe.com/products/flex.html http://www.adobe.com/products/flex.html), for example is a big software product that Adobe switched to open source in 2007. From an article back then: "Ward outlined the transition as having the following steps: Today - Creation of Mailing List for Discussion Summer 2007 - Public Bug Database and Daily Builds Second Half 2007 - Flex 3 Released December 2007 - Read Only SVN Access, Patches Welcome 2008 - Committers with Write Access, Creation of Possible Subprojects " see: http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/04/flex-open-source http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/04/flex-open-source and: http://readwrite.com/2007/04/26/adobe_takes_fle http://readwrite.com/2007/04/26/adobe_takes_fle