Open Source Flash Player Petition

Don't keep wasting valuable, open it.

Pls. Open it to contact our religion

make it happen!

Keep the internet open, please.

Please.

No more secret add-ins like those for Acrobat Connect Now?

Go Apple GO GO for the "adobe flash" or you'll end up losing the market for attention behind Android arrives

Free the web from the tyranny of Flash malware.

Need to run open flash player in embeded platform.

open-source is the web way!

Many people are craving for this.

let's keep going with flash

important for the rapid growth and stability of flash.

Macromedia would have done it.

With all the HTML5 "battle" going on there, I think open-sourcing the flash player is an intelligent way to let the community push Flash technologies further

I want to see Flash working on all of Apple's products.

Come on, Adobe. The open source the player and you can shut Job's fat mouth once and for all about Flash being closed. As with Flex, you've proven you can open source a project but still drive it. You don't make any money from keeping it proprietary.

I want flash on iPhone and all plugins open source!!!

ffs adobe, open up flash. it will make the internet a nicer place.

Does anyone else think adobe would make a good deal of money on this by open-sourcing the player and just continue selling licenses for their dev suites?

as user

This looks like the only way Flash has to follow to survive against the new Web 2.0 Wave (HTML5 / iPad / Silverligth/Moonlight, JavaFXWhatever).

Also it should help to fix the many open bugs / quirks laying around in the bugtracker, of which Adobe doesn't look to care so much, and improve overall quality. Or they could just help free implementations, providing non-bogus specs and conformance tests.

Imagine how quickly a lightweight and stable player could be released on foreign platforms when enthusiasts in the field could get their hands on a piece of source code. Adobe, please don't just try to keep afloat, but let us help you innovate.

It´s the best you can do!

Flash system give power imagination.
SAVE IT with OPEN SOURCE

I hate Flash with a passion, but I might take it more seriously personally and professionally if I could a) see the problem b) analyze the problem and c) have an opportunity to improve upon it or test it for QA, like other quality open source projects.

Flash has been around long enough that it should be considered a web standard. Adobe should take the lead in making Flash (specifically, the SWF container) into an open source web standard, then Apple would have to eat its words, and Steve Jobs would probably eat his turtleneck.

Please open source the Flash player! It would encourage open-source developers to target the Flash platform and make the Flash client available on more OSes and chip architectures!

Flash is not only for videos. Mixed with php it become a powerful tool for creating websites.

We need more choices in the web.

Free flash !!!!

Should of happen years ago.

Go ahead

Isn't it a good opportunity to get a great tool in the standards?

way to go, then it may not burn my cpu anymore...

Best way to answer to apple !

i am developper flash and i love this idea! This is an good answer to apple ^^

Dear Adobe, I love Flash, I just want it to continue a long and successful life. Opening the player could be a great opportunity to make swf a real web standard in the future.

Yes, Flash should be open source, people could then optimize it for each platform ...

Flash should be OpenSource

yes flash open source

OpenSource the World!! Flash got to be free to be improved!!

For a flash future

Please free flash !

Flash on iPhone and ipad queckly please !!!!

for an open source world!!

Flash for iPhone please.

Lets rock this boat !

Flash for iphone and other !!!! please

Flash free for iPhone and nowwwwwwwww !

If you really "believe in open markets", then, why isn't Flash open?

All readers and players should be Open Source.

LOL @ Comment #439. Reality distortion field in full effect.

Anyway, making the player opensource would allow vendors to fully integrate SWF support into the browsers themselves for potentially faster performance. Needs some thought.

I suggest you Open source Flash or it may just as well lose the battle to the hands of HTML 5.

Flash Player est trés mauvais en l'état, Adobe peut mieux faire mais comme dit Steve Jobs "Ce sont des feignants".

Flash Player ?? Is this the cross platform (Only_works_well_on_Windows™) player (huhuumm.. and bad loser?) that allowed some of us to watch on a computer how movies were made in stop motion? Great idea if, by opening the valve, we could all truly watch movies while less abusing Mother Earth resources.
Anyway I can't wait for it not to be enhanced: All we need is direct accessibility to content, that's what the web is supposed to provide, we don't need and never needed spiders on the web like ADOBE or anyone else. But their complain sadly is just corporate bullspeach™. Don't try to mislead ignorant people, this is bad... very bad attitude.

I love Apple, but I don't like the actualy Flash.

If you want flash to become better, accept it to become open-source.

Flash users always pushed the envelop beyond the boundaries and possibilities set by Macromedia and later on by Adobe. Imagine what happens if the users can give back to the community of a Open Source Flash Player.

Free Flash-player !!!

Open the web !

If you want to be on the internet you must be open source.

Nice initiative

Long live Flex on my Mac

Make flash open source so we can have a descent version on every OS !

Make Not only Flash Player open source, but also propose it to W3C/WHATG to make it a true Web standard.

Its time for Adobe to consider

Such a ubiquitous technology should not be closed. People should be free to fiddle! :)

Make like SUN with JAVA to give a sustainable future to FLASH technology.

Open source !!! Open Source!!! Open Source !!!

Flash has been one of the widely accepted platform on Internet. It's time Flash became truly open as Internet, to benefit from each other.

Open Source is our future!

Open sourcing flash would be the smartest move to stay relevant.

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It's already free, why not make it open?

Flash the player(VM) should be an open standard or open source so it will crush the enemies.

Opening up Flash Player would be a great way for Adobe to show Apple what's what, and further cement its positive relationship with developers.

Adobe's could do well to concentrate resources on making world class tools, and building the platform with the community.

Yes, I have been so disappointed in Adobe - Flash for its selfishness. I use an open source OS over 90% of the time and Adobe - Flash does not support the OS - FreeBSD, Why does greed always work out over social responsibility. I'm sorry the people at Adobe are simply stuck with a notion of scarcity vs. abundance. My goodness, folks there is always enough to go around when it comes to human made IT solutions!!!

Open up or you'll surely sink.

I think this is a great idea, I want to see flash around for some time to come , I've put a lot of effort into learning the language and using flash and AS3 to develop web sites and RIA's

My dream is Flash Player will take a part in W3C! :)

Please, support Creative Suite to GNU/Linux.

I am so sick of having issues on my Macs when it comes to Flash applications. Please just let it go!

This would allow great improvements to be made on both the Mac and Linux versions. If I'm thinking correctly, this could also lead to 64-bit versions on all of the platforms as well.

Would be nice if this happened, but I doubt it will...

balancing power

Flash would/should struggle for placement in a serious network due to constant security fumbles.

Open source will be the winner! :)

Flash ouvert ou Guerre avec Apple?

There's no reason to NOT open-source Flash, outside of selfish means.

Flash is in the same situation as gif has been. They should not reproduce Compuserve errors...

This is good idea, as it goes way beyond the concept of open screen project

First because it's the right thing to do. Second change or there will be something coming along that will kill flash eventually. And third seems that Adobe is to depended on flash now more then ever with CS5, it is in the natural order to evolve or die with the technology. Would be a waste if it does.

Rather than a runtime that runs on top of the OS layer, it would as well be one that runs inside/extension of the OS layer. I hope with this openning, Flash can be partially/fully integrated into OS layer, thus providing excellent performance.

Until then, it will run on top of the OS which only suck up resources through its layered access to the computer resources.

Open source Flash Player may lead Flash to be part of the open web standard!

Adobe should do this knowing that plenty of sites today use flash and to make it a viable solution for everyone as the internet is OPEN.

Just want to see them throw the code!

Adobe, it's not 1998 ya philistine! Open your doors!

Any Internet component need to be open to preserve it.

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Adobe have overseen Flash's develop into a well respected format and platform for multimedia on the web, but their cross-platform implementation still needs considerable work to make it a truly seamless experience. Open-sourcing the player will fix this.

I support this, but I don't see it as a reality. Adobe bought Macromedia eons ago primarily because of Flash. I doubt they would opensource it now.

And by the way, please, PLEASE open-source H.264, MP4 and AAC as well.

PHP coder

By open-sourcing it, Flash technology will improve dramatically, specially in handling resource usage and stability. Perhaps then I would be able to abandon using flash-blocking scripts on Linux's Firefox.

Would make everyone life so much easier... Adobe has nothing to lose from this and everything to gain!

Life would be so easy if Flash was opensource.. you wouldn't have to worry about Silverlight anymore!

Yess!

I honestly think that the only way Flash can survive is if Adobe licenses the player under BSD or LGPL so that it can be included as a component of browsers and other systems. Adobe should concentrate on selling the very powerful Flash development environment.

I think this is a great idea for developing Flash further and allowing the W3C to share it as an open standard.

Flash is a medium to get things done, and I'm not here to say It's always the way to make everything work. I'm here to say that it's a viable alternative technology, and making the community participate can make it work for the rest of us.

Do this and everybody will rush on Flash. It's such a great technology, but stability and security issues could kill it.

let it free!!

To make Flash Player Open Source is absolutely vital for it's survival in the long run. It's is a great piece of technology, don't let it die. Open Source it.

Open Sources. Open Minds. Open Future.

continue HTML 5 and get rid off Flash

Don't hate the player, hate the game ;-)

Sounds good

That will be a huge step forward !

Because i think that's the only way for FlashPlayer to survive in the future of html5-web - because the time is here where we can slowly migrate our flash-solutions to native open-web-solutions..

This is the very best course of action for Adobe. They do not make money from the player anyway - it is already free! So Adobe: Keep making the best authoring tool for your technology, just open it and make it even more prevalent and increase your income!

Give it completely.!

free flash ! save flash !

Very good initiative!

Get it done!

the future!

Good Job !

I am for Adobe Maintaining the standard as to what should be included in an average user's download, to ensure only refined features are included; yet, if the player was open, allowing for independent developers to take part in development, it would be great opportunity for Adobe to decide which of the various features created by the community, that it would like to include as a standard feature, and save Adobe Money incurred by development.

As Web grows, An open Source flash player ,will soon be needed

Opensource is where the future is heading anyways. It's a great chance for Adobe to get ahead of the curve.

Come on Adobe, you have only a lot to win on this! And it makes a lot easier for us in the community argue for using Flash.

Unless I'm mistaken Adobe makes it's money on tools. The Runtime is free. Open it. I'd warn that it should be opened with some form of governance, lest it become java.

html5, webGL, 03D, JavaFX... wooow! they are strong, they are open.. you'd better hurry adobe!

Hopefully this could lead to better flash on all platforms.

It will make more sense for the RIA comunnity in the longer run.

Out source it but be careful, I don't want 10 different releases of a single flash version, I want all browsers to support the latest versions as they are released.

i would really appreciate that. Adobe must go open source more then just flex framework

I think open-sourcing the Flash Player would be a good thing... although I am not sure it would be the right thing to do!

open source is the new thing, why not adobe flash player?

We can have a much better player if Adobe Open Source it.

Because once the player is open all the open web nuts will finally have to admit it. They just, don't, like, Flash.

Obviously a lot to think through, if this is even possible. Given the open-screen project and removal of licensing fees perhaps this is a great move?

You know it makes sense.

Free your mind and the player will follow !!!

Because I'm convinced that opening Flash will give it the opportunity to better integrate with other technologies and to evolve for the best.