In the previous months some of Adobe evangelists handed out licensees of Flex Builder for people without job in order to help them get a job by reconverting them. Ben Forta said on his blog:
We did not launch a full program for this, just a grassroots initiative thought up and delivered by your friendly Adobe Platform Evangelists. We were inundated with requests, and gave away hundreds of copies in the first few days. And it worked, fellow evangelist Duane Nickull gave a copy to a developer who recently told us that it helped him get a new job!
As a continuity of this start-up Adobe launched the official version of the Adobe Flex Builder 3 Professional for unemployed developers program. You can register here and along with the Flex Builder license you’ll receive various offers to help you learn Flex.
Thinking about this I can only say that Adobe did a great thing through their evangelists by starting this out. I’m thinking that in this moment of world economic crisis this is the best measure of counter attack by helping unemployed people find a job.
Thanks Adobe!
To read more follow the links:
https://freeriatools.adobe.com/learnflex/
http://www.forta.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/4/3/Free-Flex-Builder-3-For-Unemployed-Developers
Tags: flex builder, free, license, unemployment
This post was written by Andrei Ionescu
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This is no longer true. Adobe got 15,000 requests and have now stop giving out free copies but you can get a 60-day trial which after 60 days is unuseable unless you have $300 to pay for it and if you’re unemployeed how can you do that?