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Petition Asks Adobe to Open-Source Flash for the Sake of Internet History

  • 30 July 2017
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Jasper_The_Rasper
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July 30, 2017  By Catalin Cimpanu
 


 
A petition on GitHub is asking Adobe to release Flash into the hands of the open-source community. Finnish developer Juha Lindstedt started the petition a day after Adobe announced plans to end Flash support by the end of 2020.
 
"Flash is an important piece of Internet history and killing Flash means future generations can't access the past," Lindstedt explains in the petition's opening paragraph. "Games, experiments and websites would be forgotten."
 
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Baldrick
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Looks like there are some diehard Flash lovers out there that do not want to 'let go'...LOL
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I'm in complete favor of this...letting stuff go to the ones who will create it entirely for free :robotlol:
 
https://opensource.org/osd

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