Classic.

From an interview of Adobe Cofounder Chuck Geschke by All Things Digital’s John Paczkowski:

John Paczkowski: Why isn’t Flash an open standard?

Chuck Geschke: It is. What are you talking about?

JP: Flash is proprietary to Adobe. It’s not Open Source. Let me rephrase: Why isn’t Flash an open standard overseen by an open-standards body?

CG: As soon as Adobe acquired Macromedia, we openly published the SWF format and removed the requirement that you have a license to use it….No, we haven’t put Flash out to a standards body yet as we have with PDF and Postscript. But I wouldn’t be shocked if we do someday when it makes sense.

As John Gruber observes: “In other words, Adobe maintains as much control over its own platforms and formats as it sees fit. That sounds pretty much like what Apple is doing with iPhone OS.”

http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20100514/chuck-geschke-on-adobe-flash-apple