EEK ! Sorry devu, I completely disagree on this, it's total FUD. Opening the flash player would in NO WAY affect 'how it should be done' just as open source browsers do not affect how the HTTP protocol (or HTML !) works. In fact, it was the era of tightly controlled proprietary browsers when HTML compatibility was at it's lowest point. And how on earth would would open source extinguish the cross platform nature ? How many of Debian's architectures are supported by this cross-platformness that we should savor and protect ? As for dangerous company - you are comparing masters, basically saying that being at the whim of Adobe is so much better than being at the whim of Apple. The only thing that protects are the backroom deals. It's not Apple that is preventing us from having Flash 10.whatever on the N900. It's not Apple who demonstrated Flash 10.1 on the N900. So, sorry again, but the b*lls*it is not that the player should not be opened (?!), it's something else.