Flash AVM open sourced to mozilla

http://www.flashmagazine.com/1345.htm

The article I read was talking about the new adobe virtual actionscript machine being responsible for the major speed improvements in the recently released Flash 9. These are two press release quotes from the article "Adobe's work on the new virtual machine is the largest contribution to the Mozilla Foundation since its inception," said Brendan Eich, chief technology officer, Mozilla Corporation, and creator of JavaScript. "Now web developers have a high-performance, open source virtual machine for building and deploying interactive applications across both Adobe Flash Player and the Firefox web browser. We're excited about joining the Adobe and Mozilla communities to advance ECMAScript."

As a mozilla supporter I am very excited about this new venture on their part. mozilla is already a very well done browser and I am so excited to see how much this improves the browser as a whole and it's speed. I also think this is going to create a very interesting rivalry between other browser companies, I mean its obvious Mozilla is one of the most copied browsers so this is just another coal in the fire.