Open Screen Project: Adobe, RIM, Google, Nvidia for Flash as runtime environment

Re:Open Screen Project: Adobe, RIM, Google, Nvidia for Flash... by vdm on Monday October 26, 2009 @05:24AM (#902864)

tl;dr

How is this not Adobe saying "Just use Flash, Trust Me"? What exactly is now open that wasn't before?

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Re:Open Screen Project: Adobe, RIM, Google, Nvidia for Flash... by samlittlewood on Monday October 26, 2009 @06:03AM (#902903)

I did notice that amongst others, the SWF and RTMP format specs. are now freely available. IIRC, the SWF spec. used to be behind an agreement that limited you to using it to produce content for Adobe's player, rather that writing your own player. I'm not sure when that changed.

I guess this is partly a move against Apple, and also $10M of investment injected into new flash apps.

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Re:Open Screen Project: Adobe, RIM, Google, Nvidia for Flash... by uuilly on Monday October 26, 2009 @06:16AM (#902908)

Yeah, I see this as a fairly transparent move against both Apple and MS.

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Re:Open Screen Project: Adobe, RIM, Google, Nvidia for Flash... by daeken on Monday October 26, 2009 @11:29AM (#903375)

The specs went to the current licensing scheme in May of 2008, with the launch of the Open Screen Project.

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Re:Open Screen Project: Adobe, RIM, Google, Nvidia for Flash... by eagleal on Monday October 26, 2009 @04:51PM (#904126)

I think it's more free as in "Free Trade" (between big players) than free as "Free Software".

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Re:Open Screen Project: Adobe, RIM, Google, Nvidia for Flash... by est on Monday October 26, 2009 @08:58AM (#903053)

The only thing not open source about Flash is the SockWave Flash Player.

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