This is not true at all. Flash is now an "open standard", in that Adobe released the specs to the file format, the VM, and most (all?) of the video format. Fo

This is not true at all. Flash is now an "open standard", in that Adobe released the specs to the file format, the VM, and most (all?) of the video format. For what it's worth, outside of a few errors in the documentation, it's fairly well written; I was working on a Flash->iPhone App compiler before Adobe announced theirs, and it was fairly straightforward to implement most things.