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Flash was mixed with licensed non-opensource-able stuff and it wasn't a trivial code base in the first place. Given that Adobe hasn't actually made much money o
by random3 8y ago
Flash was mixed with licensed non-opensource-able stuff and it wasn't a trivial code base in the first place. Given that Adobe hasn't actually made much money off Flash, such an effort would have been likely unfeasible and prohibitively expensive.
Someone from the Flash team could chime in here to give more details.
- cft 8y agoAnother option was for Google to buy Macromedia, instead of Adobe. I believe web would have looked completely different today.
- whatever_dude 8y agoThis is true. Several aspects of the player were licensed tech. All text rendering, for example. The _format_ was open, but the implementation was not.