[Just as every other Flash blog has already posted 
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I signed up for IFBIN earlier in the year as it looked like a really promising service. I was interested in developing a way of generating wordsearches using .xml and Flash. Thus I put this forward as a proposal for the IFBIN authors. Unfortunately, IFBIN petered out and no new content was added for months. Plus my own personal request was largely ignored and came to nothing.
I did get in contact with Ted the owner of IFBIN who informed me about the change of plans for IFBIN. I said that I’d be more than happy to donate my fee to encourage the future open source development of the site. If - and it is quite a large if - the site can develop it can potentially become a great source of Flash experiments and ideas.
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1 Andrew Field // Aug 1, 2006 at 11:52 pm
Ted Patrick has also released this post on his blog, explaining the changes:
http://www.ifbin.com/news/2006/08/ifbin-20-begins-ifbin-is-open-and-free.html
Starting today IFBIN ‘Flash by Example’ and ‘Flex by Example’ products are open source, open to contribution, free to download, and free for commercial and non-commercial use. These changes are the foundation of IFBIN 2.0.
IFBIN is one of the best projects I have ever worked on. Working with a team of 42 developers we attempted to redefine learning by example as a service. We delivered a solid platform for publishing, created over 500 examples for Flex and Flash, and earned the trust of over 100 customers worldwide. We were poised for success and were gaining momentum when personal legal matters intervened in January 2006. Divorce and a legal custody battle over the company brought development and progress to a grinding halt. After 5 months of legal matters, I recently obtained full control and ownership of IFBIN and intend to rebuild the service from the ground up.
Today we begin a new chapter at IFBIN that starts with embracing the concepts of open and free. These changes are the foundation on which we plan to rebuild the IFBIN service within the development community. This new development will allow us to fulfill our promise to our existing customers and grow the market for Flash and Flex.
What does open and free mean for IFBIN?
1. All code is free to download and use for any purpose.
2. All code is licensed under a BSD License.
3. IFBIN will add support for example publishing within IFBIN 2.0.
4. IFBIN 2.0 will be a free service.
IFBIN 2.0 will be released as an Adobe Apollo desktop application for secure publishing and installation of software examples. Adopting Apollo will provide seamless access to file installation services and cross platform support. The client application will allow anyone to publish and download software examples easily. We will also be adding support for other software and design products within the Adobe product family.
I look forward to working with everyone on IFBIN 2.0. It is my sincere hope that IFBIN 2.0 will return the value promised to our founding customers. I want IFBIN to becoming the leading desktop learning service for Adobe design and development products. More to come…
Regards,
Theodore Patrick
IFBIN Networks Founder and CEO
http://www.ifbin.com