Graphics software giant Adobe Systems has released some components of its commercial products as open-source software, a move intended to help others ease a tedious but important part of programming.
The San Jose, Calif.-based company released two packages, Adam and Eve, that it uses for the creation of the interface people use to control software. The packages were posted last week on the company's Web site.
Adobe said it released Adam and Eve "to give back to the wonderful open-source community which gives us so much" and to enlist the help of others in improving the packages.
The majority of Adobe's products are proprietary, but the company is edging closer to the open-source realm. Its flagship products run only on Windows and the Mac OS today, but in 2004 Adobe started evaluating Linux more seriously. And a beta version of its latest Adobe Reader, a program for viewing Portable Document Format, or PDF, files, runs on Linux.
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