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nodata on Oct 6, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Adobe Flash 11 is now stable for 64-bit Linux

That's a good point. If Flash was free software, there wouldn't be a need for a download page - it would be in the repositories already.

rwmj on Oct 6, 2011 | [–]

And it would have been integrated in browsers directly, and we could have run valgrind on it and fixed all the bugs.

windsurfer on Oct 6, 2011 | [–]

I worked for Adobe and there are more than 100 licensed libraries and even more patents used in Flash. There's almost no chance it'll be open source.

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