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

[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
revenues may reach from selling the player in this later context, but that's
one way to think about it.