Flex Builder Linux Dead

It appears that Flex Builder Linux is no longer being developed by Adobe.  I just finished the following post on InfoQ raising the issue: http://www.infoq.com/news/2009/05/flex-builder-linux-dead.

When you consider all of the steps Adobe has taken to court Java developers, who tend to care about open source, this seems like a really strange choice.  Why not just dedicate one or two resources to the project to keep up the perception that it is being worked on?  I doubt there would ever be much direct revenue for Adobe from Flex Builder Linux, but it does seem important in there overall strategy to court forward thinking developers.  I wonder if this is a direct result of the current economic situation, which is likely forcing Adobe (and most other software vendors) to put all there resource in areas with direct revenue.

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