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Someone at twitter ..

Dumping projects to the Apache F. is the new convenient way to abandon projects while saying "look, it's a good thing!"

Yes, once they decided to refocus on html 5 it would have been a whole lot better for them to just dump flex and leave all its users without any support whatsoever, especially since the apache fundation is forced to accept to take charge of such projects even if they don't want to.

Mocking is easy, given the alternatives this is a quite a decent outcome.

You are right, but the spinning this as a good thing is grating.

> especially since the apache fundation is forced to accept to take charge of such projects even if they don't want to.

No, it isn't. Nothing says they (we) have to accept anything.

The sarcasm obviously alluded you.

eluded

We have a difficult time saying NO.
Right now, Adobe has not even submitted a proposal to the incubator -- just blog posts about how they intend to submit it.
I eagerly await their submission of a Flex proposal. Part of the proposal, and critical for Flex, is proving this isn't just a code dump. If it is a code dump, I will vote -1, and I hope everyone else does too.

What additional things would make the difference?

" it would have been a whole lot better for them to just dump flex and leave all its users without any support whatsoever"
If you were not being sarcastic, then I would be forced to agree with you.

And on proggit:
Apache, the Indian burial ground for unwanted software projects.

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