Adobe recently announced that it would contribute source code to the Mozilla Foundation.
The aim is to establish a standard scripting language that developers would use to create interactive applications for Adobe's Flash Player and Mozilla's Firefox. Adobe will hand over source code from its ActionScript Virtual Machine, basically, the scripting language engine in Flash Player.

This source code from Adobe will result in a new open source project hosted by Mozilla called Tamarin. This project will have the goal of implementing the final version of a standard scripting language in Firefox's ScriptMonkey JavaScript engine, MacWorld writes.

A day after Adobe contributed with the source code for this open-source project, Bruce Chizen said that Adobe won't stop here. Chizen is the Chief Executive Officer of Adobe Systems and explained that Adobe is interesting in investing into open-source and that it is participating in the WebKit open-source browser project as well as other open-standard initiatives.

Chizen made these statements at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, and added that Adobe has always believed in having an open architecture for its technologies, but as a software vendor it constantly struggles with finding the right balance between openness and commercial principles. It's a fine line, MacWorld reports.

Many think that it is a good thing that Adobe is trying to support Mozilla and its open-source projects, but as Adobe is, after all, a company that commercializes its software, they have to handle this situation with great delicacy and care, as they are actually doing two things that don't get along very well form many people's points of view.

The whole point of open-source is to give something to the world, not to sell it. Leaving that aside, this collaboration between Adobe and Mozilla is practically the start in Adobe actually involving itself in the web area, and Adobe's acquisition of Macromedia has gone very well and is having the desired effect of transforming Adobe from being "a peripheral player on the Web" into a protagonist by leveraging each other's products, Chizen said.

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