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Than I would toss Macromedia Flash out!
While it is a decent product, I really prefer the interface of Adobe products to those of Macromedia. Having used Dreamweaver, Firecracker and Flash next to Photoshop, Illustrator and GoLive, I find that Adobe puts together products that are more streamlined and polished. Maybe I'm just used to their style.
As far as open sourcing Flash, people could check out OpenSWF.org.

I have thought for a while that with the depth of market penetration that Flash has, it would be nice to have it as a sort of standard so that other companies could be involved, because web streamable vector graphics are a lot bigger than just Macromedia.
I do respect the work they have done, and don't want to see the excluded from reaping the benefits of their work. We all need a vector graphic standard, though, and it isn't for the better to have one company to have complete control of anything, as Macromedia has now with the delivery of vector graphics.

I hope they don't Sun on this one (we want a standard, no, we want us to control it, but we want a standard).

More Information here: OpenSWF.org

The Flash File Format (SWF) has been "open" since April 1998, but the spec was (is) very buggy and poorly supported.

Macromedia announced they would release the source code for the Flash Player in May 1999, but the have been very slow in delivering.

Everything you ever wanted to know about Flash is here: OpenSWF.org

For anyone who's into open source Flash stuff, check out http://www.openswf.org.

There's a bunch of good info there.

After MM released their (buggy) specs for the Flash file format (ooh: alliteration), some people got together to get the OpenSWF project going. (Slightly) More info at http://www.openswf.org/

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