Adobe kills license fees for Flash on devices
Keeper of Flash, Adobe, has unveiled its far-reaching "Open Screen Project," garnering the interest of a who's who of heavy hitters ranging from ARM to Verizon and pretty much everyone in between. Why the massive corporate attention? The project ultimately aims to open-source Flash's file formats and portions of its inner workings -- but perhaps more importantly, it'll kill the license fee manufacturers pay to bundle Flash players on their devices, potentially opening the door for the same massive level of acceptance Flash has enjoyed on the desktop in our pockets as well. There's no word on exactly when the fruits of the project will be available to the public -- Adobe says it's "just underway," after all -- but if this means our Flash-laden phone is going to be, like, 20 cents cheaper now, we're all for it.














Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
conor @ May 6th 2008 3:48PM
Yes!
Yubastard @ May 6th 2008 4:02PM
Indeed! :)
nows the time to break out my actionscript kit.
huh @ May 6th 2008 4:01PM
this is in reaction to java (including android) and other open source runtimes. I'm no flash fan (cause it tends to dribble onto places it shouldn't, like entire web sites that could have been really open, lightweight html) but here's to competition!
Bchau @ May 6th 2008 8:12PM
Another important point is that it would be the same run-time, namely, flash player across all devices, from computers to handset and anything in between. That would mean a truly author once and publish anywhere for developers building the flash applications. Something Java can only dream of.
AlphaTeam @ May 7th 2008 4:24PM
I just want my updates for my phone so I can get Flash 3 Lite.