free work in the spoon project, will be used to build applications that run in flash runtimes. If manufacturers of browsers, mobile phones, tablets etc are not integrating Flash with their platforms, Flex SDK could the finest SDK in the land but on what platforms will my applications run? I'm sure Adobe "hopes" that the open source community will, at their own expense, create the perfect SDK for web applications and if so, perhaps the device and browser community will take notice and keep supporting flash runtimes to get the competitive advantage, but clearly Adobe is betting against it by withdrawing or diminishing their commitment to it. I'm not sure if you are personally an SDK developer, but those who are likely understand best the challenges in creating an SDK and a development toolset that can do what flex does. If I think of the life of Flex through 2, 3, 4, 4.5 with a dedicated effort under authority of a single company, I would expect HTML5 would take at least the same lifecycle of 5+ years to get to where Flex is now. Can someone at Adobe please do the responsible thing and give the developer community some specifics about exactly how fast flex will go down the toilet, what timelines are in place for dropping support for flash in browsers in general, and existing implementations in mobile/tablets. Also, as it seems Adobe is taking a leadership role in HTML5 development, please share with us Adobe's targets for replacement