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tl;dr How is this not Adobe saying "Just use Flash, Trust Me"? What exactly is now open that wasn't before?

• samlittlewood 17y ago
  I did notice that amongst others, the SWF and RTMP format specs. are now freely available. IIRC, the SWF spec. used to be behind an agreement that limited you to using it to produce content for Adobe's player, rather that writing your own player. I'm not sure when that changed. I guess this is partly a move against Apple, and also $10M of investment injected into new flash apps.
  • uuilly 17y ago
    Yeah, I see this as a fairly transparent move against both Apple and MS.
  • daeken 17y ago
    The specs went to the current licensing scheme in May of 2008, with the launch of the Open Screen Project.
• est 17y ago
  The only thing not open source about Flash is the SockWave Flash Player.
• eagleal 17y ago
  I think it's more free as in "Free Trade" (between big players) than free as "Free Software".