Adobe claims that they publish the Flash specs: "That, certainly, was what we learned as we launched PostScript® and PDF, two early and powerful software solutions that work across platforms. We openly published the specifications for both, thus inviting both use and competition. In the early days, PostScript attracted 72 clone makers, but we held onto our market leadership by out-innovating the pack. More recently, we've done the same thing with Adobe® Flash® technology. We publish the specifications for Flash — meaning anyone can make their own Flash player. Yet, Adobe Flash technology remains the market leader because of the constant creativity and technical innovation of our employees."
http://www.adobe.com/choice/openmarkets.html I always thought that the reason for all the trouble with Flash on Linux is that Flash was a closed standard. If the spec is published, why are the FLOSS players so far behind Adobe's player? Is it just that difficult to design a good player? [I see that the above could be read as a whining demand for others to develop software for me. I don't mean it that way at all; I'm just curious, since I have an unbounded faith in FLOSS developers to design great software for anything for which the standards are available ;)] Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100513193147.0466ac73.cele...@gmail.com