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samlittlewood on Oct 26, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Open Screen Project: Adobe, RIM, Google, Nvidia fo...

I did notice that amongst others, the SWF and RTMP format specs. are now freely available. IIRC, the SWF spec. used to be behind an agreement that limited you to using it to produce content for Adobe's player, rather that writing your own player. I'm not sure when that changed.

I guess this is partly a move against Apple, and also $10M of investment injected into new flash apps.

uuilly on Oct 26, 2009 | [–]

Yeah, I see this as a fairly transparent move against both Apple and MS.

daeken on Oct 26, 2009 | [–]

The specs went to the current licensing scheme in May of 2008, with the launch of the Open Screen Project.

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