Specifically, I’m referring to the patent system. You don’t actually have to realise your idea, you can just protect the novel steps that you’ve introduced to a process or invention, wait for someone to do it after you, and then ask them for money.

I’m making no judgement either way on patents as a system or method of protection, but some ideas definitely are worth money in and of themselves. For good or for bad.

Adobe had already made Flex SDK open source but is now discontinuing their work on it. Spoon is taking over. Adobe says they will still build FlashBuilder. So Flex is still around.

The announcement about the mobile player is unrelated to the flex announcement. They has nothing to do with each other. Well, actually, you might infer that they are stopping work on Flex as part of a larger strategy, one that focuses its resources on mobile-friendly technologies such as Enterprise HTML5.

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Thank you for your reply.
It is always good to share thoughts.
It is the best way to reach to a wise decision.

When I say “don’t panic” I don’t mean to imply that this news isn’t important or that we should ignore the current state of the industry. To the contrary, I think it’s a great time to grow and learn and try new things. What I do mean is that we don’t need to PANIC and start acting crazy, calling Flash “dead”, quitting our jobs, etc. Not everyone is in a position to just switch to a new job or cancel all their flash projects. In fact I think the notion of telling a client that the project they are paying for is now a dead technology is suicidal and wrong. That is what I mean by panic.

I think of the value of the flash platform as a stock and right now confidence is low even though the numbers aren’t that bad. The Flash community dissolving overnight is as much to blame as Adobe. It’s politics, emotion, and developer ego that drives us to ignore that a tool is viable because of how a company hurt our feelings. Smart developers will continue to take jobs they can get and adapt to what the m/arket dictates. And yes, they should not rule out Flash if it’s the right tool for the job.

By all means, we should all be looking at other options and expanding our skills in other areas. This is not the first time something like this has happened and it won’t be the last. I for one see it as a great opportunity. Even if the platform changes the “work” will not just disappear. For a while, there’s going to be a huge demand for interactive developers and not very many people who can do the work. That’s good news if you’re a smart guy with experience in Flash.

Something the Flex community should care about it,

Should developers continue with “a going to dead” technology which stopped in development and start getting a bad reputation in companies to go with MEANWHILE OTHERS HAVE BEGINNING TO RESERVE A SEAT TO LEARN A NEW DEVELOPMENT TOOL LIKE OBJECTIVE-C?

In other words :

Flash/Flex developers who think it is better not to be panic and continue in their path to develop applications based on Flash-Platform will find themselves after let say 3 years they reached to the end of road and their technology become old enough not to gain any client interest anymore / or Adobe finally draw the plug to support them and bring any new feature the developers need, in the same time, those developers will find their colleagues who are leaving the Adobe Ship NOW and joining to Apple ship have filled the good positions in companies and build an excellent experiences within 3 years – for example – while Flash/Flex developers who continue now without panic should build it from zero hopping to find a job vacancy for a junior.

I believe – others haven’t to – that there is some kind of deal between Apple & Adobe from the days that Adobe announced that their fight with Apple about Flash is ended, in this deal Adobe will continue with Apple as a good partner to distribute their Software through the apple closed ecosystem , or whatever the deal is , against Adobe abandon Flash technology smoothly to open the door to Apple technologies like objective-c or others to dominate the future of development environment.

Adobe decided to kill Flash Platform, that what your understand from the Indian CEO words when he said :

“The decision to restructure our business was a difficult one, and it has been tough for me as well as all our employees.”

http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/

If it was just killing mobile browser plugins, then it is really not so difficult things that the crowd will not accept it, but he know that decision is really big as big as Flash Platform.

Reminds me of a T.S. Elliot quote I just picked up from reading Steve Jobs biography. “Between the idea / And the reality / Between the motion / And the act / Falls the Shadow.”

“And just as Steve loved ideas, and loved making stuff, he treated the process of creativity with a rare and a wonderful reverence. You see, I think he better than anyone understood that while ideas ultimately can be so powerful, they begin as fragile, barely formed thoughts, so easily missed, so easily compromised, so easily just squished.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=JD2d2bWZVNs