What if Flash and Silverlight are made open source?
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I don't know how that would affect the businesses of Adobe and MS (as in loses they might face etc) but I was thinking instead of "scrapping", can't they make it open source and may be subject to some sort of open standards? Other groups could then modify it and distribute it, something like Linux. Would that ameliorate the issue of these two being closed and proprietary products or would that add to the melee of open standards?
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I don't know how that would affect the businesses of Adobe and MS (as in loses they might face etc) but I was thinking instead of "scrapping", can't they make it open source and may be subject to some sort of open standards? Other groups could then modify it and distribute it, something like Linux. Would that ameliorate the issue of these two being closed and proprietary products or would that add to the melee of open standards?
bosedk wrote:
What if Flash and Silverlight are made open source?
The universe(s) would implode, explode, make a bacon sandwich and then restore the servers of reality to the last stable point.
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I don't know how that would affect the businesses of Adobe and MS (as in loses they might face etc) but I was thinking instead of "scrapping", can't they make it open source and may be subject to some sort of open standards? Other groups could then modify it and distribute it, something like Linux. Would that ameliorate the issue of these two being closed and proprietary products or would that add to the melee of open standards?
allow sleeping dogs to lay. If it ain't broken, don't fix it - but, in this case, just shovel in the rest of the dirt and plant some posies. Wait - I got an idea! Convert them both to COBOL resources!
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I don't know how that would affect the businesses of Adobe and MS (as in loses they might face etc) but I was thinking instead of "scrapping", can't they make it open source and may be subject to some sort of open standards? Other groups could then modify it and distribute it, something like Linux. Would that ameliorate the issue of these two being closed and proprietary products or would that add to the melee of open standards?
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The Moonlight project (Silverlight for Mono) is essentially an open-sourcing of Silverlight, and I think Microsoft are still supporting the Mono Project.
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But that is not source developed by MS, no? Moonlight is something that others wrote that could run Silverlight apps. MS is helping them test if I understand correctly.
No, it isn't, but if it's functionally equivalent, who cares? A company like MS would only open-source something if it is an open source dump, i.e. they are essentially saying 'We don't want to develop this in house (much) any more, here you go, make something with it'. So a functionally equivalent existing open-source version basically does the same job as if MS were to release it.