[OSM-talk] Flash and open source

[Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason]

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 17:08, Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net> wrote:
> Occasionally the subject of Flash and free software comes up here in
> relation to Potlatch.
>
> I would encourage people to sign the petition at http://openplayer.net/
> encouraging Adobe to make the Flash Player open source.

Making their player open source would be nice. But what's mainly
stopping players like Gnash is that their protocols are closed, and
that anyone working on opening them up is subject to Adobe's legal
team [1].

Adobe is obviously aware of these issues, but chooses to keep their
platform closed. An online petition is unlikely to change their mind.

1. http://www.chillingeffects.org/anticircumvention/notice.cgi?NoticeID=25159