This is interesting. According to Tim O’Reilly, Macromedia’s next Flash authoring tool will be built on the Eclipse Open Source IDE project. Eclipse’s offshoot, the Eclipse Rich Client Platform, has been used for a number of interesting online learning applications via the RELOAD project. (I’d love to see them add a QTI editor to the mix….)
At any rate, Macromedia’s move is just another example of how the line is blurring between OSS and closed source. And again, I largely think this is a good thing.
