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There is a petition ( 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

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), 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

and: http://readwrite.com/2007/04/26/adobe_takes_fle




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