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Originally Posted by scottjl
Flash is not a recognized standard and has not been officially given "standard" status by any organization. It is a proprietary language wholly owned by Adobe.
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True, but the file format specification has been
available for a long time, and there are any number of
open source projects for creating and playing Flash, the most famous of which is probably
GNASH. Also some of the technology bits behind Flash such as
Tamarin has been made open source and is being used by others (such as Mozilla) to do good stuff. And that's not even touching what is going on with the
Open Screen Project.
So it's not correct to give the impression that Flash is completely closed either, but then again I'm biased
