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Re:Official reasons why Adobe doesn't open-source Flash by x_entrik on Wednesday February 10, 2010 @04:12AM (#1114520)
Highly doubtful if Adobe will ever come out with a clear answer, meanwhile - wanted to point you to this comment exchange on another Adobe blog:

http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2010/01/sympathy_for_the_devil....

Quote:

  Your comment is extremely interesting because it 
  seems to be the first time Adobe has publicly acknowledged
  that the real reason for that DMCA takedown was the
  encryption scheme NOT *potential* copyright infringement.
  Meaning that Adobe deliberately mis-used the DMCA and mis-led
  the entire community about the real reasons for the takedown
  right?
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Re:Official reasons why Adobe doesn't open-source Flash by pingswept on Monday February 15, 2010 @03:55PM (#1127468)
Thanks for that. It seems like Adobe could actually refute the accusation pretty well if they wanted to. My impression from the exchange you link to is that Mr. Nack (the Adobe guy) has a point, but I can't say that I understand it, since he's only written a couple of sentences.

It looks to me like some of the folks at Adobe are genuinely trying to be open, but others aren't, so it looks like the genuine folks are lying, since you can't tell who's really doing what. It's weird, because I don't see how Flash could possibly win in the long term without becoming completely open. (I do think a non-open option can win, but it doesn't look like it will be Flash.)

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