Adobe flash has become a defacto standard for rich content over the internet. Whether is animation, video or cool looking interactive web pages, web developers trun to flash for development.
However, small developers from poorer countries cannot afford expensive licenses for flash. But, they do have excellent opensource alternatives for developing flash content .
Open Dialect is an Open Source Flex based Flash IDE. Open Dialect is written in C# using the .NET 2.0 framework and has been ported via Mono and GTK+ to Linux and partially OSX. The purpose of this software is to create Interactive Learning Environments, hence the name (Dynamic Inter-Active Learning Environment Creation Tool). If you are interested in the goals and implications for the field of System Dynamics of Open Dialect continue reading, otherwise enjoy what amounts to (for the time being)