Re:Ask HN: Why doesn't Adobe just kill the Flash Player?
by robinduckett on Sunday December 18, 2016 @04:40AM
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PepperFlash is made by Adobe, and is closed source, it's called "PepperFlash" because it uses a different set of APIs, "PPAPI" vs "NPAPI". It's available to download from their "other versions" download page, so I'm wondering what your point is?
Re:Ask HN: Why doesn't Adobe just kill the Flash Player?
by future1979 on Sunday December 18, 2016 @06:01AM
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Pepper and Nacl seem to have an uncertain. I read that Google unstaffed some teams. Anyone familiar with what is going on?
Re:Ask HN: Why doesn't Adobe just kill the Flash Player?
by nkkollaw on Sunday December 18, 2016 @06:04AM
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Ah, got it.
My bad, I thought it was a completely different implementation.
Re:Ask HN: Why doesn't Adobe just kill the Flash Player?
by icebraining on Sunday December 18, 2016 @05:02AM
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There are only two open source players AFAIK; Shumway, which has been discontinued, and GNU Gnash, which despite the heroic efforts still doesn't support all features.
Google Chrome doesn't use Adobe's Flash player, for instance, but a player called PepperFlash.
Adobe could very well discontinue developing their player, and just tell people to use an open source version. They could make it a marketing stunt by open sourcing their player for user freedom or some stuff like that.