I don't understand Nik's point
Nik Cubrilovic discusses todays announcement by Adobe to open source most of what makes up Flex, the framework, compiler, debugger and so on.
He then goes on to tell developers 'not to hold their breath' as the Flash runtime won't be open sourced anytime soon.
I guess my view here is why would that be good for anyone? Does anyone really want to see a fractured runtime environment as exists with Java on the desktop, where you can't really be sure which Java someone has and how a different version might perform or an application behave in a different manner when using one Java runtime or another
Sure there are some benefits of an open source runtime, but I'd rather have a single common runtime across several operating systems where I can be confident of a consistent experience.
