That was probably about five years too late for the open-sourcing strategy to be successful. By 2010 Flash was already widely reviled on the desktop and doomed

That was probably about five years too late for the open-sourcing strategy to be successful. By 2010 Flash was already widely reviled on the desktop and doomed to be shut out of the mobile browsing experience. But if there had been at least a fledgling open-source Flash ecosystem for a year or two before the iPhone was released, things could have played out very differently.