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They won't be able to do this, for the same reason they couldn't open source Flash - too much proprietary code and licenced stuff.
by shib71 13y ago
They won't be able to do this, for the same reason they couldn't open source Flash - too much proprietary code and licenced stuff.
- michielvoo 13y agoFlash is also a runtime for code and supports video decoding. Fireworks on the other hand is a utility application built around the PNG graphics format (which is not patented, but Adobe/Macromedia has extended it for Fireworks metadata). But even if it is a more suitable candidate to open-source, I just don't think there's much in it for Adobe. It'll just cost a lot of money with the lawyers involved and the whole code-base will need to be reviewed.
- michaelbuddy 13y agoyup, Adobe has been in the business of buying up competition for years. They aren't just going to give away a system that will take share away from their products.
- danboarder 13y agoThat may or may not be true - they have 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
- enygmata 13y agoThey could do it like Google do with Chromium and Chrome.