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This is also the guy who basically wrote a letter to the public / app developers that said 'you can't use flash' so blatently the DoJ, SEC and FTC were roshambo'ing each other to see who got to sue him first.

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i have no idea why you are downvoted, and surely it's not this, but figured I'd mention, it's "Rochambeau", a name.

> it's "Rochambeau", a name.

"Connections to the French surname Rochambeau are a folk etymology"

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rochambeau

suggesting that you know that saying "Rochambeau" is unconnected from the French name Rochambeau is a folk etymology. Saying we can't identify any connection between this word and a person with the same name is closer to the truth.

But the same wiki also lists my spelling as correct. So you're really not contributing anything?

It's both, either, or neither. The spelling he used is common and widely accepted. According to legend Rochambeau played it, but there is no evidence for that. The earliest written reference to the word doesn't spell it like the French general's name, though similar enough to plausibly be a corruption of it. However it may also be a corruption of the japanese name for the game.

Anyway, I'd guess he was downvoted because a lot of people here have an old justified hate of flash and thought his comment signaled tribal allegiance to the opposite camp.

> i have no idea why you are downvoted,

The decision to prevent Flash from operating on iOS was never considered as cause for lawsuit by any of the agencies mentioned by GP.

SFGate[1] reported at the time that exactly what I said happened happened. IIRC Apple later mooted any regulatory action by reverting their developer policy change. But for a while, it was looking pretty sketchy. And I think it's telling that the Thoughts on Flash letter is no longer available, taken offline at around the same time antitrust suits started up again.

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20100510113916/http://articles.s...

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