JD on EP

Mark Anders had the opening post, with perspective from someone who has been working hard the past few years to bring out about such a result.

Ted Patrick was also a 9:01er, and apparently has a thing for Princess Leia.

Ryan Stewart lays out the what, why, when.

Josh Tynjala reprises the core info in Ryan's, and adds what it means to him.

Sho Kuwamoto has been working towards this end for years, too... when he talks, I listen. Sho discusses the timing of the announcement, in terms of the technology's evolution.

James Ward is jubilant (I bet he'll have more here soon)... Andrew Oliver has the wittiest post I've seen this evening.

Scott Delap at InfoQ spoke with James Ward and Ely Greenfield -- a concise overview.

Yakov Fain at Sys-Con: "What was Better by Adobe becomes Better by Community".

Robert Scoble teased his readers, then offers a video interview with David Wadhwani and Ely Greenfield.

Ted Leung looks at the announcement and possible evolution... see his highly-linked March essay "Adobe wants to be the Microsoft of the Web".

Let me post this, clear out some browser windows, make another pass....

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Microsoft's Channel 9 discussion forum already has some commentary... hmm, on scanning through I'd guess the title was originally about Scoble's teaser post, then the headline changed to "Flex Open Source" later. Sociology study.

Mike Chambers puts the links into the Open Source Flash mailing list, and you can forward through the thread as it develops from this web-archive page.

A Techmeme cluster... the link should stay good, but there may be additional clusters by morning, check archive.

Brian Deitte discusses it from the unique perspective of someone who has worked on Flex at Adobe, then works with Flex at Brightcove. He tries to foresee how people will choose to make contributions, and what their effects may be.

David Zuckerman has an inside-the-shop perspective, focusing particularly on the two compilers and the debugger.

Tim Walling has an observation I like, on how Adobe has kept-the-faith on the Macromedia deal.

Mordy Golding of the Illustrator world digs it! :)

John C. Bland uses up his vowel allotment for the rest of the month of April.... ;-)

Scott Morgan sees it from the perspective of someone who has been using Flex (history), what changes it might bring in the next year or two.

Brian Lesser started off the discussion on Flexcoders.

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David McAllister "keeps track of open initiatives at Adobe, from open source to open standards" (history).

Twitter search doesn't seem to offer chronology controls, but Tara Hunt carries the crow theme forward.

Andrew Wooldridge, whom I first met as an early Dreamweaver extensiologist and who latter started the SVG-Developers mailing list and has done CANVAS work, picked up on the Open Flex news really quickly.

Wade Lu ("Digicat") brings the announcement into Chinese, and closes "呵，多了" ("Wow, too much.")

Dion Almaer of Ajaxian likes the direction things are moving in.

Matt Asay at InfoWorld: "This move strikes me as a foundational, company-defining decision."

Sho Kuwamoto has "More thoughts on open source Flex and community", focusing on the balance between "nice to have" and "bloat", and looks at the Microformats group as a possible model.

Jesse Ezell: "Props to Adobe".

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Asa Dotzler of Mozilla has a "This is interesting" link.

Things seem to be quieting down... I'm going to quit, 'cause Europe will be waking up soon.