[eznet]

As much as I hate to agree with such a malicious statement, I do have to agree that Adobe has not helped their case for community support in their lack-luster support for the Linux and open source communities.

I have used Adobe products for many, many years and have used Flash since it was a Macromedia product and can say that some of the interesting things done with the internet in its earlier days would have likely not been possible without Flash. On the other hand, as a developer and a FOSS user, I am ready for another tool to accomplish what Flash does without all the headaches that we have been forced to endure over the years with flash and proprietary plug-ins in general...

[stcredzero]

If Google also pushed/developed some open media player and animation technologies and integrated these into Javascript or into browsers, why would we need Silverlight and Air at all?

[partoa]

Actually, all they have to do is make their Lively "plugin" work from all websites and you would have your animation technology. Why the had to keep this one to themselves I don't know, but I'm glad they did because it leaves that opportunity available to some other innovative organization.