Fine, maybe it doesn't need to die. All it needed was some healthy competition from companies dumping resources into HTML5. It was starting to get a bit uppity,

Fine, maybe it doesn't need to die. All it needed was some healthy competition from companies dumping resources into HTML5. It was starting to get a bit uppity, going unchecked for so long. And with any luck, perhaps Adobe could be pressured into releasing the runtime as a standalone open source project to which they are the major contributor, like the WebM organization for Google, which would be the best possible outcome.