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by dbrannan 3855 days ago
Can we get Adobe to open source the flash player plugin as well? Can anyone think of a reason Adobe continues to refuse?
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Potentially mired in rights issues (since they originally acquired it from Macromedia, who may have not owned 100% of the codebase), or written so badly that vulnerabilities will be made very obvious by its open-sourcing.