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 think open sourcing the Flash Player would have any effect on the ability of other developers to create Flash based IDEs. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Baz <li...@...> wrote: > > I don't know much about how to answer this, so I'm not trying to take a > position or anything: purely out of curiosity, what would Adobe lose if > Flash were open sourced? Is it that competitors would more easily be able to > make competing IDEs? > > Cheers, > Baz >
