Adobe MAX 2008 North America took place earlier this week in San Francisco. As expected, with the congregation of Flash heads in the Bay Area the blogosphere is active with Flash-related posts.

Dion Almaer talks about how the Flash platform could join the Open Web. He suggests:

Adobe has an opportunity here. They can move to the right and Flash could become strongly in the Open Web camp. Then we would all be stronger as we come up against Silverlight.

Following Almaer’s post, Brad Neuberg wrote up an exhaustive look at how Adobe could actually go about bringing Flash into the Open Web. He outlines six points:

1. Cross-Platform Standards
2. No Vendor Lock-in
3. Anyone Can Innovate
4. Powerful, Universal Clients
5. Open Source Implementations
6. Mashable, Searchable, and Integrated

I’m sure we’ll hear more about this in the aftermath of Adobe MAX, but these posts are sparking conservation on the idea of open-sourcing Flash (or aspects of the Flash platform) to the development community.

Tags: Adobe, MAX

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