How more open do you want it? You are free to make your own player against the open specification. Fully open isn't the answer for everything. Flash is the mos

How more open do you want it? You are free to make your own player against the open specification. Fully open isn't the answer for everything. Flash is the most widely distributed piece of software ever - it got that way by NOT being forked and offering what HTML didn't both in terms of consistency and features.