Why not open-source the old Macromedia Devnet Resource kits?
- April 1st, 2006
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DevNet has been dead for awhile, but why hasn’t Macromedia/Adobe decided to release the old DevNet Resource Kits (at least the items that were owned by Macromedia) as open-source? If you aren’t going to sell it anymore, don’t bury it.
There was some good sample apps and extensions in there that could either be used as-is or updated (provided the source code was supplied) for the newer product releases.
List of all 9 resource kits:
http://www.macromedia.com/software/drk/productinfo/all_volumes/
Actually they went all the way up to volume 13 before they were discontinued last October. They got pretty halfhearted about things in the final year, apparently going as far as not even listing the last four quarterly updates on the site.
Speaking only for myself, but all of my DRK apps (4 or 5 or so) were released in open source. I just had to wait six months after the release.