Adobe has announced a new initiative called Open Screen, which aims to make the company's Flash multimedia technology ubiquitous on mobile and embedded devices. Adobe plans to eliminate the licensing fees required to distribute its own Flash player and AIR runtime implementations on mobile devices and will also remove licensing restrictions on the specifications for the FLV and SWF formats so that developers can create fully-compatible independent Flash player implementations.

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Free dev tools now, maybe?

May 02, 2008 02:26     

Flash is a great way to easily create apps / games for phones, but it's unfortunately out of reach for most enthusiasts due to the cost of the development environment. Hopefully opening the format will help bring new ways of creating Flash that will be accessible to everyone.
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