I'm neither - it's quite foolish to tie yourself to one platform/language, whether it's open or not. I've chosen my profession precisely because of that - in IT things can completely change within a year forcing you to learn new stuff, that's what makes it exciting in the first place. When was the last time somebody asked you if you know Fortran? How about COBOL? BASIC, anyone? Pascal? Delphi? VBScript? VRML? DOS? AmigaOS? ... By declaring yourself as a developer for ABC platform and in XYZ language/environment you become a potential dinosaur. If you know what programming is and how any given computer works in a nutshell, languages are a simple task of learning a new syntax, and platforms are a simple task of learning new APIs.

Yes, currently half of my work is on the Flash platform, I've even seen the complete source code of the Flash Player (which in turn prevents me to legally contribute to projects like Gnash) and it's actually not that bad; and as I've stated, if Flash platform is to die out it would be a terrible loss for the interwebs, but I really don't see the point of your lengthy monologue. You mean haXe will save the day? While a noble idea (one language to rule them all) I don't see how it solves issues on both accounts - Linux and Flash development.

First of all, haXe is not Flash - Flash platform is far more than just the ActionScript language. Second, promised portability of haXe is years behind Qt, for example, so why wouldn't you go with Qt if that's your concern? So, what's the reason one should choose haXe? What problem does it solve? Do not get me wrong, I have nothing against haXe, I just don't see what's your point in mentioning it?

And another thing, 1mil+ Flash developers might be a good marketing point, but no more than 1000 of those are actually programmers that are fully aware what are they doing. The vast majority of those developers are actually either designers forced to learn some bits of ActionScript, or so-called script-kiddies that want to make something shiny without regard of performance impact, as fast as possible. And both of those categories are more responsible for giving Flash a bad name than Macromedia/Adobe are themselves. I'd rather have 1000 people that know what are they doing, than 1mil+ essentially clueless self-appointed developers for any given platform/technology.

I wonder if Qole's twit about N900 not getting the FP 10.1 is the culprit for this topic.