This article is confusing, and sounds confused, but I feel like a lot of problems like this could be solved by Adobe open sourcing the Flash Player. If they did

This article is confusing, and sounds confused, but I feel like a lot of problems like this could be solved by Adobe open sourcing the Flash Player. If they did this, we would have a complete, correct view of how each and every feature in the Player was implemented, and a working implementation to compare to. In the sense that there is so much art locked away in SWF blobs which don't quite work with gnash or shumway. The last patent needed for MP3 decoders will, IIRC, expire at the end of this month, so we can include one of those everywhere too (essential for most SWFs). Also, it'd be nice to have access to the Shockwave player, boy oh boy, I think just about nobody has tried to reimplement that (probably due in part to XTRAs and other fun). There's still plenty of Shockwave content out there, don't know if anyone here remembers playing the Gorillaz Final Drive gamette, IIRC released to promote 19-2000, or any number of other cool things people were doing with Director.