alt Hacker NewsI wish Adobe had open sourced Flash - it really was a pretty amazing tool. They could have owned the proprietary developer tool market to support themselves...
Replies
cube00 • yesterday at 10:56 PM
They couldn't because it lives on in Adobe Animate which Disney as a customer among others.
➕ show 2 replies
If it was possible they would have loved to - certainly by 2012 or so, and more likely by 2008-9. The reason I heard they couldn't is that by that time Flash Player was a massive 10+ year old codebase with lots of parts that were licensed or external, and nobody had ever tracked which parts would be to be relicensed or rewritten.
Source: I worked there at the time and knew the relevant PMs.