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Comment by grishka | Hacker News Reader

I see you over and over again in Flash Player threads. Your approach isn't good because it requires someone else's, namely Adobe's, cooperation, and even then, you still end up with a black box inside another black box. Doesn't feel sustainable.

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Why does it require Adobe's cooperation?

Because he said so previously. There's some licensing stuff he's apparently very worried about.

> To use CheerpX for Flash, a licence is required for both CheerpX itself, and for distributing the Adobe Flash Player. This is a requirement for both self-hosted and cloud-hosted installations. In many cases, we will be able to offer both licences under the same commercial agreement. In some cases, a separate licence will need to be procured from Harman. Leaning Technologies can make the right introductions and facilitate the conversation with Harman.

https://medium.com/leaningtech/cheerpx-for-flash-now-general...

It's even worse than I remember. So, a very b2b very proprietary product. I mean, their website even has pictures of random smiling people and a bunch of logos of random companies. Most everything leads to "contact us". Technical details are sparse. Can't get more b2b than this.

Can't see how this can even begin to approach content preservation we're talking about here.

Seems especially silly as there’s a real business use case here, for people who made apps using Flex. Not sure how many companies actually still depend on that but it was definitely a thing for a while there. Surely much better to focus on that.

They could as well make use of that underlying x86 emulation technology to run ActiveX components and sell it to those companies that still rely on them in their internal systems — I'm sure there still are such companies.

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