Youtube, the video distributor owned by Google, gets several billion views per week. Those billions of clips couldn't play without Flash multimedia software from Adobe Systems. Yet YouTube pays nothing to Adobe for using Flash to stream all those videos. The Flash player is the most widely available software on Earth, according to Adobe. Its tied for least remunerative. The revenue from the player software is $0. Next year Adobe is eliminating its fee to phone manufacturers like Nokia, Samsung and Motorola, which will put a mobile version of Flash on a billion phones by 2009.
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