Re: [flexcoders] Re: Out of curiosity, what would Adobe lose if Flash were open sourced?

2010-05-05 Thread Oleg Sivokon
Yes, I did, and it is enough to view the flash graphics. And, of course it doesn't really execute any AVM2 bytecode. What I was trying to say in my previous posts is that *would be* ("would be" is accented if you cannot see the HTML formatting) great if Adobe had given more thinking to supporting t

[flexcoders] Re: Out of curiosity, what would Adobe lose if Flash were open sourced?

2010-05-04 Thread mitek17
Gnash !?!? Di you try use it? --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Tom Chiverton wrote: > > On Tuesday 04 May 2010 00:48:25 you wrote: > > With the swf format being documented, and available, in theory there could > > be plenty of different implementation of the Flash Player. > > And there are,

[flexcoders] Re: Out of curiosity, what would Adobe lose if Flash were open sourced?

2010-05-04 Thread mitek17
> > But, none of the alternate players out there are 100%. Making their source > available, it'd probably bring a flood of alternate players. Damn nation! opening the source code of Linux will bring myriads of other linuxes! This agression will not stand!

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Out of curiosity, what would Adobe lose if Flash were open sourced?

2010-05-04 Thread Oleg Sivokon
Tom, Gash is not it's name... It's called GNash (GNU + Flash), gash is something else... ;)

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Out of curiosity, what would Adobe lose if Flash were open sourced?

2010-05-04 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Tuesday 04 May 2010 00:48:25 you wrote: > With the swf format being documented, and available, in theory there could > be plenty of different implementation of the Flash Player. And there are, such as Gash. I believe the open source community has issue with the license the spec. is released u

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Out of curiosity, what would Adobe lose if Flash were open sourced?

2010-05-03 Thread Oleg Sivokon
Flash Player is free for using, but not for redistribution. If you want to embed it in your application (if it's not the ActiveX purchased by MS for example), then you have to pay (or find some old and suspicious agreement with Macromedia - like MDM Zinc ;) ). I have no idea of how high the revenue

[flexcoders] Re: Out of curiosity, what would Adobe lose if Flash were open sourced?

2010-05-03 Thread Jeffry Houser
With the swf format being documented, and available, in theory there could be plenty of different implementation of the Flash Player. But, none of the alternate players out there are 100%. Making their source available, it'd probably bring a flood of alternate players. Since the Flash Player

[flexcoders] Re: Out of curiosity, what would Adobe lose if Flash were open sourced?

2010-05-03 Thread Jeffry Houser
As I understand it, certain pieces of The Flash Player it are licensed from other companies and included. Such agreements probably do not give Adobe the ability to distribute source code. One thing that comes to mind i that Flash Player would lose The ability to play H.264 video. I don't