There’s been some confusion on the terms of the Flash 9 ActionScript 3.0 Preview released by Adobe earlier this week. Somewhere on the site, it states that the download is a 30 day trial. This prompted some questions about the logic of such a thing on the OSFlash list, which Mike Chambers cleared up:
“If you already have Flash 8, then there is not a time limit.
They time limit is for people who dont already own Flash 8 (i.e. it is basically the same as a trial in that case).”
So, if you don’t have Flash 8 installed and activated, you basically get a Flash 9 ActionScript 3.0 Preview 30 Day Trial Version. (That’s a mouthful.)
If you do have Flash 8 installed and activated, the Flash 9 AS3 Preview will last… well, I don’t know how long it will last. I’m guessing there’s a time bomb in there somewhere, but it’s a lot more than 30 days. It also mentions on the Adobe site that there are no more public preview releases of Flash 9 planned prior to the official final release sometime in 2007, so I imagine this preview will be good for many, many months.