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I completely agree with you, but in the interest of lively discussion I'll play devils advocate for a second here and point out Gordon [1] which is an open-source flash implementation written in Javascript and Gnash which is an open-source flash movie player [2].

[1] http://github.com/tobeytailor/gordon

[2] http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/

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Gordon is not a Flash implementation. It is a Flash-to-SVG converter for basic vector graphics. That's about 5% of the Flash runtime, the parts that date back to the earliest versions of Flash. To call yourself a Flash implementation, you have to at least take a stab at multimedia, ActionScript, external resources, ...

Gordon will never do anything fancier than play a Newgrounds animated cartoon... without the audio track.

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