Now as far as Apache foundation goes, they are one big warehouse of good and bad projects. The Gold standard that Apache was has been diluted for some time now. Some projects are very successful, some are moderately used, and a few are simply junk. Most successful Apache projects in the recent times, for example Hadoop family of tools, or Cassandra, have seen huge infusion of capital and tons of full-time paid developers working on projects. Much of this money is being pumped in because the investors have a plan for monetizing and earning multiple times of their investment. Apache projects or for that matter most successful open source projects are no more run by hippies who code all night for love and fresh air. In contrast to the well funded Apache projects, the already limited Flex community is thinning out everyday and most of the folks are members of small consulting firms. Consulting firms usually follow the direction of the wind, unless they want to go out of business. Given that how many firms are going to put their money, reputation, and future in the medium to long term in trying to save Flex. Possibly a handful will. But most of these companies, despite the noise they make today, are so small (where there revenues are often less than 15 to 20 million dollars a year and they are not sitting on million of dollars of VC money either) that I wonder if they can afford to swim against the tide.

Last but not the least, have you wondered why Roy Fielding is singing songs of Adobe praise and trying to sell Apache to the Flex community and make it appear like its for the sake of freedom and prosperity that Adobe is donating Flex to Apache. (Flex is already open source. Isn’t it? BlazeDS is too, which apparently hasn’t seen updates for sometime now ) With all due respect to his talent and his contributions to open source, its quite possible that the $250 million that Adobe paid to acquire Day is what is making him speak.

Good luck. This is the last comment from my side on this thread. Pardon me if I hurt your sentiments. My intentions wasn’t to do so and I will only be happy if Flex gets some life support cause without it Adobe has left it to die. Also, if any current Flex developer desires to remain decently employed in the longer term accepting the reality and looking beyond Flex could possibly be helpful. Alternatives are behind today. They may not be tomorrow. Also, I would urge that try not too be fooled again by the HTML5 drama Adobe is trying to sell or you will be helping incubate the Edge project a few years from now as well

Adobe is killing it’s Flash platform so that it can get into digital ad metrics? While it’s still hard to experience the web circa 2011/2012 without encountering lot’s of Flash? That just seems crazy.

If Adobe had delivered the whole Flash platform to Apache (Flash/AIR/Flex) instead of just Flex and done so in a way that respected the commitments many of us have made to the platform, this might be different. But it’s hard to see how Apache Flex has a future when Adobe will probably blow up Flash/AIR in another clusterf__k sooner rather than later.