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Yes. Because Adobe hasn't released the official flash player (the only "somewhat functional" one around) under open source license, it's not possible to port it to any unsupported platform (unless Adobe themselves want to do it, which they don't).

Personally I wouldn't call that "licensing issue", just closed source software.

Generally licensing says what you may and may not do (like port to other platforms). Being closed source doesn't (as such) forbid that, just makes it practically impossible.

Of course there are 3rd party open source solutions, but none of them are very compatible, and we have one of those already anyway. Gnash isn't much better yet, but if that changes some day, a port might be considered.

[ Edited by Jupp3 16.09.2011 - 13:30 ]

(Adobe hasn't released the official flash player (the only "somewhat functional" one around) under open source license, it's not possible to port it to any unsupported platform (unless Adobe themselves want to do it, which they don't).

isn't there a demo or evaluation ver similair to what android 2.2 uses or is this what you were referring to above?

> isn't there a demo or evaluation ver similair to what android 2.2 uses [...]?

Android is considered a supported platform by Adobe and thus runs the official Adobe Flash Player, which is closed source like all the other Adobe Flash Player versions.

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.adobe.flashplayer

What's the deal with Adobe Air?
Another dead end for MorphOS?

In what way it may be a dead end for MorphOS?

well, can it be implimented into the OS or mainly OWB?

> can it be implimented into the OS or mainly OWB?

Go back to Jupp3's reply in posting #5. What holds true for Adobe Flash holds true for Adobe AIR all the more.

>In what way it may be a dead end for MorphOS?

Then the answer should have been the classic Piru response...yes!

can it be implimented into the OS or mainly OWB?

It can't. So what? Silverlight and many other technologies can't as well.

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