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If it's of such low value that it's being discontinued and all the browser vendors are blocking it; why not open source?
by cosmotic 6y ago
If it's of such low value that it's being discontinued and all the browser vendors are blocking it; why not open source?
- dharmab 6y agoFlash evolved into Adobe Animate, which is used today for many television shows: https://www.adobe.com/products/animate.html https://www.adobe.com/products/animate.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Flash_animated_television_series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Flash_animated_televis... Disclaimer: I work for Adobe, but not on Animate.
- Dylan16807 6y agoI doubt open sourcing the player would hurt that revenue stream.
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- DannyB2 6y agoGood question. Why not open source? All it takes is someone (or group) interested enough to expend the resources necessary to re-implement it. But browsers are not going to support binary extensions. So an implementation might be in WebAssembly / JavaScript -- but then Flash becomes just a translation or transpile layer onto existing web technology. If nobody implements an open source Flash, that is the proof that it is not sufficiently interesting to anyone with resources to build it.
- macspoofing 6y agoI suspect the Flash runtime has a bunch of patent-encumbered, licensed software and codecs and the effort to secure those licenses for open-source release is too much effort/money.
- cosmotic 6y agoI suspect something like that. The video codecs it uses are Sorenson Spark (ancient), VP6 (google opened this), and h264 (certainly encumbered for a while longer). Though, patents haven't stopped open source projects like LAME or x264. At the very least, they could release the source for the code from 2000 which is now past the patent expiration dates.