Adobe Flash Virtual Engine goes open-source in the Mozilla Foundation

Adobe Systems announced a partnership with the Mozilla Foundation that both parties hope will lead to a better web.

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Adobe has agreed to release the script engine behind the company’s popular Flash Player under an open-source license. Mozilla will host the new project, named Tamarin, which makes the code for Adobe’s ActionScript Virtual Machine, or AVM, freely available.

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The Mozilla Foundation says it plans to release a version of the Firefox browser with the new AVM code built in sometime in 2008.

Wow. Full article on Wired.

Also read the Implications of the Mozilla/Adobe team-up on Slashdot.

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