Adobe’s Open Screen Project

As time passes bay, more and more commercial products move on and become open source. In the end, it seems everyone starts to recognize the advantages that an open development model can bring. Obviously, there are also exceptions, but we're not going to talk about them now. The best part is that, even when certain software producers choose to keep their products as closed source, a move towards opening up is still being made, and the last example is Adobe and their Flash Player...


Until now, to look at the SWF specification, you had to sign a licensing agreement with Adobe. That agreement required you not to create competing players, but now Adobe is trying to expand the reach of the Flash Player, so starting today, all restrictions on the use of the SWF specification are going to disappear!

All the above is a part of a bigger picture, called Open Screen Project. The Open Screen Project has a very nice goal, to enable a consisten runtime environment across a wide range of devices and desktops, improving Internet experiences on every device you can think of, from computers to digital video recorders.

So far, so good, but let's hope the Flash Player for the iPhone will also be ready in time for the 3G iPhone...what do you think? Am I aiming too high, or I'm not the only dreamer?

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