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I'm going to assume that by "you", you mean "the collective you of Hacker News" and not me. However, even with that assumption: I've worked with Flash before.

I'm going to assume that by "you", you mean "the collective you of Hacker News" and not me. However, even with that assumption: I've worked with Flash before. I have nothing inherently against Flash, personally. In fact, I quite like Flash when it comes to its sweet spot of animation. I just view Flash as a means to an end; HTML5 is another means to a very similar end, so I don't see strategic value in Adobe owning their own means.

radley 16y ago
Adobe has opened up everything that they can for Flash Player. There are only a few closed portions, such as H.264 video license stuff, that they cannot share for obvious reasons. Yes, "you" was a general y'all, not specifically you =) Edit: Question just came up at session at MAX. Direct from Adobe Flash Product Manager: there is a lot of code that isn't Adobe's that they had to license. Also, Flash Player is tiny/tight bit of code ( < 1 MB). It's messy to be very efficient. Finally, they have opened it up, but Adobe still writes 99% of the code themselves, so they're not encouraged to open it up more.