Lynch began his keynote with a response to Stanford professor and copyright reformer Larry Lessig, who addressed the Flashforward crowd Wednesday about the Creative Commons system for less restrictive copyright protection, and about antipathy toward Flash in the open-source and free software world.
"There's more progress we can make as a community," Lynch said in his keynote. "The Creative Commons thing is great and could be very helpful to us."
Lessig had urged Macromedia to consider how Flash authors could more easily share their source code, citing HTML's source code transparency as an example of how free exchange of intellectual property helped make a technology ubiquitous.
Macromedia appeared to have taken Lessig's words to heart, and Lynch displayed a new software button that Flash authors can use to automatically make their source code available.
After the keynote, Lynch said the company was open to the idea of including such functionality within Flash itself, but said optional add-ons such as the source code button were sufficient.
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