Why not contribute to well-established open source Flash players? http://lightspark.github.io/ https://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/
Or https://github.com/mozilla/shumway which doesn't require any native code
Petition to open source Flash
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Re: Petition to open source Flash
#32Isn't Flash player's code super-messy by now? (a hint towards that could be all the vulnerabilities found for it every week). Open sourcing it would have to dramatically improve the code quality and in a relatively short period of time (2 years max), otherwise browser vendors would never go along with it (nor should they). Sounds like a daunting task, especially if no big organization/leader takes up the task of clea…
It probably still would not be enabled by default.
Re: Petition to open source Flash
#33Chances are that Flash contains licensed third-party IP and thus Adobe couldn't unilaterally open source it even if they wanted to.
True, but even a non-functional source dump with lots of the guts ripped out and redacted would be extremely useful for researchers and preservationists.
Re: Petition to open source Flash
#34This will probably take years of course. Hopefully the H.264 patents will expire at least not long afterwards.
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#36No no no no NO. It's time to get rid of Flash. Open-sourcing will make it live forever. Flash has very little to offer that is not at this point duplicated (or improved upon) by others. It's also woefully insecure. "Many eyes make all bugs shallow" will only work for the most trivial bugs in the most common code paths. Plenty of vulnerabilities will remain. In open source, they'll be even easier for attackers to find…
Very narrow minded. Tens of thousands of games rely on flash, along with many movies and general history of the internet. Open souring it will preserve countless hours of lost work.
I didn't know Flash devs had a union
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Very narrow minded. Tens of thousands of games rely on flash, along with many movies and general history of the internet. Open souring it will preserve countless hours of lost work.
Ten of thousands of games are created every year.
I'm hoping enough people flag this story so it's removed from the front page, and we can get back to more important stories.
BTW, don't bother debating this because you'll simply be downvoted for a different opinion. Flag it off the front page and save your karma.
It's time for Flash users to learn the having the web based off of closed source Adobe Flash really does have its downsides. They didn't seem to get it 10 years ago. Now it's going to disappear completely.
So, in the future when someone patiently explains why you shouldn't used closed source as a web standard, maybe we can all say "remember Flash".
Re: Petition to open source Flash
#38Chances are that Flash contains licensed third-party IP and thus Adobe couldn't unilaterally open source it even if they wanted to.
Now I'm really curious if that's the case. It could explain why they didn't open source the Flash runtime back when they open sourced the flex compiler.
Re: Petition to open source Flash
#39I support this. In 20 years when no one is using it anymore and the source code is released for academic purposes.
Re: Petition to open source Flash
#40No no no no NO. It's time to get rid of Flash. Open-sourcing will make it live forever. Flash has very little to offer that is not at this point duplicated (or improved upon) by others. It's also woefully insecure. "Many eyes make all bugs shallow" will only work for the most trivial bugs in the most common code paths. Plenty of vulnerabilities will remain. In open source, they'll be even easier for attackers to find…
Browsers are removing plugin support either way, so I don't see any harm in open sourcing the player.