2012/8/29 Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com>: >> One thing I never understood was Adobe not helping to open source >> Flash Player > My understanding is that one major factor is that key aspects of the player > depend on 3rd party works.
We should learn of what others did in the past and those kind of problems can be overcome, if there's real interest, excluding 3rd party libs and investing in open source replacements. >> or transforming it to help to be the industry standard. > IMO, an initial step in that was the Open Screen Project. But the history has teach us that Adobe only makes *real* open source when they does not want a piece of software (our case with Apache). When Flex was a first class product for the company it was open sourced in some *strange* way that was not sucessful at all >The problems with > Chrome show how hard allowing third parties to develop aspects of the player > are. However, we could try to have Apache become an OSP partner. Not sure > if that would work though. >> They they managed it is pushing the player to some uncertain future. >> Take a look to the recent problems with Chrome that make >> LocalConnection to break functionality. >> >> Sometimes I think why web technologies are such problematic and why we >> don't have today some robust ecosystem free of flame and company >> wars... > In some ways, that's what keeps us employed :-) > Yes, but in the other part, for us (people making final products and selling those products and not the technology behind it) is a problem to invest in a technology that can become obsolete in the way things are turning... > -- > Alex Harui > Flex SDK Team > Adobe Systems, Inc. > http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui > -- Carlos Rovira Director de Tecnología M: +34 607 22 60 05 F: +34 912 35 57 77 CODEOSCOPIC S.A. Avd. del General Perón, 32 Planta 10, Puertas P-Q 28020 Madrid
