Flash open source: Ένα αίτημα που δημοσιεύτηκε στο GitHub ζητά από την Adobe να διαθέσει το Flash στα χέρια της κοινότητας του ανοιχτού code. Finnish developer Juha Lindstedt posted the request, the next day announced by Adobe ending application support until the end of 2020.
“Flash is an important comeye of the history of the Internet, and its removal means that future generations will not be able to access the past," Lindstedt says in the opening paragraph of the petition. "Games, experiments and websites will be forgotten."
The developer in a nutshell asks Adobe to provide Flash or parts of its technology so that the open source community can refresh and release a version of the Flash plugin or at least create a tool that can accurately convert old SWF and FLA files to modern HTML5, canvas data, or WebAssembly code.
The goal of this project will be to ensure that a large amount of archived web content, movies or games will not die from 2020 and then as browsers evolve and Flash will be incompatible with modern technology.
"Another possibility would be to have a separate one Browser,” said Lindstedt citing possible solutions for his support oldesty Flash content. "I don't know how, but that's the beauty of open source: you never know what will come out after you open source!"
"We understand there are licensed components that you can't afford, just leave them out with a note explaining what was removed, and we'll either bypass them or replace them with open source alternatives," the developer added.
Lindstedt asks its users Internet to sign the request on GitHub. As of this writing, the request has garnered over 3.145 stars.
The reaction from the open source community has been mixed, with some welcoming Lindstedt's efforts to save some of our history on the Internet while others disapprove of the developer, citing the endless vulnerabilities of Flash.
Meanwhile, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and the Mozilla Foundation have announced plans to remove the Adobe application from their products to 2020.
