Petition to open source Flash

Re:Petition to open source Flash by aarongolliver on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @04:40PM (#14860113)

There is an all out campaign to remove flash from everything possible. Soon it will be gone from every major browser and phone. That's exactly what this is in response to.

Personally I just want to ensure there's a way for me to go back and look at all the work I did in high school. It's already a pain to figure out how to run my old SWF files, and soon it's going to be nearly impossible.

Maybe I should just snapshot a VM with everything set up correctly?

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Re:Petition to open source Flash by simion314 on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @06:06PM (#14860811)

If you use the VM solution you probably need some open VM format, in case in a few years the current formats are dropped.

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Re:Petition to open source Flash by yjftsjthsd-h on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @06:47PM (#14861084)

Just use a raw disk image? What format is there to lose?

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Re:Petition to open source Flash by simion314 on Thursday July 27, 2017 @04:49AM (#14863622)

VirtualBox uses an XML file that stores your VM settings, and for disks there are a few options,for my work I use the disks that grow (so I set the disk to 100Gb but if I use 20 Gb now it will use 20Gb of my real disk space)

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Re:Petition to open source Flash by yjftsjthsd-h on Thursday July 27, 2017 @07:27AM (#14864234)

That's fair, but the XML is probably non-essential, and I believe there are already open source converters for most disk image formats. There's some risk, but I don't think it's very much.

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