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As much as I want people to stop using Flash for new projects, I'm worried what this means for preservation. There are a lot of old Flash games and other stuff
by amyjess 9y ago
As much as I want people to stop using Flash for new projects, I'm worried what this means for preservation. There are a lot of old Flash games and other stuff out there that has never been ported to HTML5 and have been abandoned by their creators. A decade from now, we're probably going to need to run an old OS in a VM just to run this old content.
We're at risk of a digital dark age already, and this is just going to make it worse.
- pera 9y agoI don't know if Adobe is planning to open source Flash, but there is GNU Gnash: https://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/ https://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/
- andrioni 9y agoIt's actually pretty weird that would stop distributing it, especially since they still distribute a Shockwave Player, and well, Shockwave has been completely dead for long time now.
- amyjess 9y agoEven if they continue distributing it, newer operating systems and browsers may not be able to run it.
- xeeeeeeeeeeenu 9y agoShockwave Player is still supported. The latest version was released ~40 days ago[1] [1] - https://helpx.adobe.com/shockwave/release-note/release-notes-shockwave-12.html https://helpx.adobe.com/shockwave/release-note/release-notes...
- nileshtrivedi 9y agoIt's an expensive lesson to the society, not to rely on proprietary software for content creation. If we are willing to pay heed to it. Now let me go back to my open-source community discussions in Slack. ;-)
- criddell 9y ago> A decade from now, we're probably going to need to run an old OS in a VM just to run this old content. What's wrong with that? Because that path is open, I think Flash games have a much better chance of preservation than most SAAS-projects being developed today.