Well most or all decisions are based on emotion, despite what we rationalists think, but I take your point.
I'd like to write something here thats actually useful and might contribute a tiny item to the knowledge pile at Adobe, without boring everybody with personal details- 1) windows + Adobe puts me over budget at home, and I am accustomed to using all-open software, and one of the appeals of Flex Builder on Linux was I could learn it without forking over money. and yes it galls me to send money to MS. 2) My company is a Linux shop and no license money is available for experimental projects; CTO wants Java and the only way I can convince him Flex/Flash is better is to show something else that works. 3) I need to see what its like developing without the Flex Builder framework. I am already the only one in the building who uses an IDE or visual debugger. Just as I had no idea how Sun was going to make money on Java ( opposed to IBM who does) I don't know how Adobe can make money giving away tools, but it sure looks like open tools are going to win the battle in the long run, and proprietary tools will lose market share. Maybe Adobe can sell the visual designer stuff? Open source software people are so wary of proprietary tools because we have seen over and over how tool sets get munged over time, or even abandoned, how open tools have vastly better tech support, and now finally with Eclipse, open tools are achieving parity with the visual IDE stuff from vendors. It seemed to me that Adobe was following a semi-open model with Flex, for instance open bug reporting, and that attracted me in the first place. and so forth John daxdr9 wrote: > If your willing to drop Flex because they don't sell an IDE for Linux, you're > basing a technical decision on emotion. > > >
