Flash - it hurts! Make it stop! :-(

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

On Mon, 5 May 2008 at 17:55, Cefiar <cef at optus.net> wrote:
> Must admit, I am very happy to see Adobe opening up access to the
> specifications finally in a proper way.
> http://www.adobe.com/openscreenproject/

Has anyone reviewed the specifics of this initiative? Have the specs been 
released in a manner that can be safely used by FOSS alternatives to Adobe 
Flash, such as Gnash?

A few months ago, Microsoft released a heap of documentation on specs and 
formats. Reading the fine print revealed that there were a number of clauses 
which prevented FOSS projects from using them, including a restriction to 
non-commercial efforts.


-- 
"The less I have to do with customers, the better. I've always felt that the 
biggest contribution the commercial vendors do is exactly the fact that they 
end up being the interface between customers and developers, and that they 
also thus end up being the balance between purely technical issues and the 
purely marketing thing. And open source keeps them (and the developers, for 
that matter) honest." - Linus Torvalds, 21 December 2004
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