Wait, does this mean free copies of Photoshop and Premiere for everyone? Not exactly. In what I deem to be a serious shot across the bow to Microsoft, Adobe has open sourced a project called Open Screen Project. Based on the description here, it seems fairly obvious to me that this is largely in response to Microsoft’s Silverlight.

To be honest, it is still early enough in the game Adobe can make a mark in here as clearly, it is going to take more that Flash alone to compete with Silverlight. At is core of abilities and from the development perspective, Silverlight is simply more advanced. So perhaps with some work and a really good development effort, the Open Screen Project.

At the very least, I think it will be good to see a real balance here. Besides, it ought to be interesting to see how all of this adds up.