so if adobe flash for the web is free how are they suppose to make money of it and silverlight also??
Like GideonD said, the program Adobe Flash is what you use to make flash files such as movies and games. If you buy the program it costs about $700. Flash Player is a web plugin that allows people to share the content they created and other people to view that content. The player is free so that anyone can download and use it. It’d be kinda sucky if someone paid $700 for the Flash program and made something and noone could watch it because they didn’t want to have to pay to use the plugin to view the content. So it makes sense to have to pay for the program if you’re going to make flash content, and to have the web plugin be free so that anyone can view flash content that other people created and spent so much time and money on.
April 23rd, 2010 at 8:59 am
Adobe Flash Player is free.
Adobe Acrobat Reader is free.
Adobe Flash (the program you make flash files with) is very expensive.
Adobe Acrobat (the program you make PDF files with) is very expensive.
Just an example.
You are only use the viewer programs for free. To actually make content for them, you pay quite a bit.
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April 23rd, 2010 at 9:14 am
Like GideonD said, the program Adobe Flash is what you use to make flash files such as movies and games. If you buy the program it costs about $700. Flash Player is a web plugin that allows people to share the content they created and other people to view that content. The player is free so that anyone can download and use it. It’d be kinda sucky if someone paid $700 for the Flash program and made something and noone could watch it because they didn’t want to have to pay to use the plugin to view the content. So it makes sense to have to pay for the program if you’re going to make flash content, and to have the web plugin be free so that anyone can view flash content that other people created and spent so much time and money on.
References :
My own knowledge
http://www.adobe.com/products/flash/?promoid=BPDEE