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This reads like Adobe left flash to wither on the vine. In retrospect perhaps Adobe is better at tools and they should have open sourced the flash plugin 5 year
by acg 16y ago
This reads like Adobe left flash to wither on the vine. In retrospect perhaps Adobe is better at tools and they should have open sourced the flash plugin 5 years ago. Allowing them to concentrate on world class tools.
I can't help thinking that acrobat reader is perhaps going the same way. Will anyone use the plugin in a few years?
- jacobolus 16y agoAdobe only acquired Flash (w/ Macromedia) ~4.5 years ago, so they could hardly have open-sourced the plugin 5 years ago.
- acg 16y agoI thought the acquisition may have been almost exactly 5 years ago, but you're right that it wasn't complete till December. Also I was thinking if the plugin were opensource over this period when there has been increased browser competition how much more innovation we would get natively in the browser.