General Discussion • Re: Flash vs. Ruffle

If only Adobe had made Flash's code open source. I'm mean it's not like they're doing anything with it right now, so why not?

Adobe being Adobe, though...

Less to do with corporate behavior, more with IP law. There's probably a ton of legacy stuff in there (the original product was by Macromedia, which Adobe acquired in 2007) so who knows what kind of software patents or other licensing issues might have to be resolved before releasing it, and that also costs money to do. Not worth it for them when they've officially retired the product. But putting in that time bomb was a total dick move. Can't let people choose to use it and take on the responsibility of any security breaches themselves after all.