Voting for Adobe to open source Flash Player

I'm not specifically what you can call an "open-source evangelist" nor a specialist of the problem, but as a user and Flash developer, I think it's now time to open-source Flash Player.

Adobe already have made great moves to open source their technologies. Just have a look at the official Adobe websites like opensource.adobe.com, www.openscreenproject.org, www.opensourcemediaframework.com They now have a good knowledge on developing open source softwares destinate to a community.

A lot of things are currently moving around Flash technology, like the W3C hardly looking for royalty-free, open source solutions for HTML5. Open video player initiative. Silverlight 3 becoming now mature on Windows, Mac, and soon Linux. Google buying On2 video solution (the same video codec still in use by Flash Player). And many other things that some of you even better know than me.

Flash is not only a video and audio player. It has created a community, allowing ton of incredible developments to appear on the Internet. Its powerful capabilities to create user interfaces, Rich Internet Applications must became something that anybody can benefits by open-sourcing what at least can be open-sourced in the current player. Many things are quite over my understanding regarding marketing or legal issues under that. But I want that Adobe knows that people want an open source Flash Player.

Reading what people said on Twitter yesterday following the announce of Google buying ON2 and the Ted Patrick's blog post asking for people to log bugs and feature requests on bugs.adobe.com, I really want to tell Adobe that I want they open-source the Flash Player. I so have a look to the bugs.adobe.com website to find the appropriate issue on which to vote for. Surprisingly nobody never created an issue for it, it's why I have created one.

You can now vote for Adobe to open source Flash player here.

You can vote for on the left row of the page if you register to the website. The form is the simplest ever, you only have to give a real e-mail to validate your subscription. Once subscribed you can vote for this feature request :