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This is great news. I really hope they will publish even the latest flash specifications and that Gnash will become a fully-working alternative.

Great!
Now port Adobe Flash CS3 Professional to Linux, Adobe.
You know you can do it.

many big companies are slowly waking up to linux and its open source, open standards way, great news.

So is this open-source? Because it just says it's being opened up....

Looks like they're out to crush silverlight here and now.

it seems that adobe is really starting to get it, open standards are the future for sure.

So how much easier will it be for the gnash devs now? I'm not a developer by any means, but I know they were having a lot of issues with essentially reverse engineering the swf format.

Maybe now we can get a better version of Flash on the Wii...

About ***** time. Now get rid of the licensing restrictions on .flv format.

This is not a big deal now, but it could be if Adobe really goes down open-source road. If they just put this out for PR then that would be lame.

Do they still not have a 64-bit version of Flash?

Considering the availability of freeware tools to convert these formats to AVI, for example, it's hardly surprising.
However, it IS good to see Adobe responding to that promptly, and in a genuine manner, as opposed to ignoring facts, distancing themselves from what the customer actually needs, and concentrating on how much more revenue they can cream from it.....like certain Seattle-based companies do.

Finally! Youporn on the Wii!

Yes! Always wanted this. I hope this benefits some of the flash player projects around.

Wonder whether this will influence Apple in regards to the iPhone software... Will it make it easier for them to develop a flash client that is not so lightweight as the MoblileFlash already out yet not overburdened as a desktop client? It may be interesting to see what develops especially considering WWDC is close...

I'm sure this has nothing to do with the increasing threat posed by Silverlight.

All I want is a version of flash that doesn't make the fan in my MacBook go flat out. How come I can stream HD avi videos to my TV and the fan stays at ~2000rpm, yet a simple YouTube video has it max out at 6200rpm? Poor coding?

***** finally. any werd if it will run on windows mobile?

So will the Opera browser on the Wii finally get a Flash update?

I think it's great, having used Flash 8 and Flash CS3. Microsoft is making Silverlight, and in a way, I was hoping that there'd be more competition than just between Adobe and Microsoft. The problem is, if Silverlight was made right, I would seriously consider it as a Flash alternative because the Flash IDE had stability problems, and Actionscript 2 just got weird at times. Hopefully Actionscript 3.0 will correct a bunch of the issues.

Are they that desperate to get in on the iPhone bandwagon?

Dammit Adobe, wth did you not do this 2yrs ago? About time.
Silverlight disgusts me at this point, but at least it has kept some perceived heat on Adobe.

great, maybe now the firefox devs can fix firefox3b5 bug where flash crashes

Hopefully this will stop npviewer.bin from spiking up to 178% on Ubuntu.

This is actually pretty cool, it means there is a better chance of Flash being ported to open mobile platforms, which includes things like the GP2X, some mobile phones and other things.

let's hope someone in the iphone team will think of a porting of adobe air on the iphone...

Does this mean we are going to start seeing customized flash players required for sites? Example ABC.com decides to build a flash player stripped down and optimized for displaying video content, which your required to download. Some game site makes their own beefed player with built in effects.

I'm hoping I don't have to start monitoring what flash players I have installed and don't use. Could get ugly.

Yeah! Awesome news for flash developers!

This just made my day. I wonder what Microsoft's response will be, since they let Adobe achieve dominance over online multimedia mediums for so many years? Silverlight never had a chance, especially not after this knockout blow.

Definitely a bit more pressure on Apple to support Flash on the iPhone...

Awesome, I'm willing to be Google had some pressure in this with their new Youtube player.

Does that mean Google Docs will finally support PDF files?

I'm wondering if opening FLV and SWF will allow for the creation of better conversion of files in either formats to more open standards, e.g., FLV to Ogg Theora and SWF to SVG.

It's good that Adobe's opening these formats to public scrutiny and implementation and it will undoubtedly benefit the developers of Gnash (I don't use the operating system, but is Gnash being ported to OS X?), but successful conversion between formats will mean that animated SVG's usage can be better implemented and spread by third parties (including Wikipedia, which exclusively uses SVG and Ogg for open, patent-free media distribution) than was Adobe's former pre-Macromedia effort: http://www.adobe.com/svg/

I guess "Gnash" has caught their attention...... Nice to see Adobe make this step.

I think the only gain that they are trying to make with this move is to get Flash on the iPhone, not as much about the "treat" of Silverlight

iPhone is nothing...

The player would never have reached such deep penetration if it were open sourced. You'd have a billion fragmented versions. It's biggest selling point is stability with regards to reliably playing content and backwards capability. From my understanding this is about opening the platform to vendors to speed adoption ...essentially removing any and all barriers including financial via sans licensing costs.

Goodbye Silverlight. We hardly knew yee.

does this mean we can finally have proper GPU acceleration for our crappy little webgames?

Where does it say anything about open source? I think you've all been taken in by a headline unless I'm missing something?