Okay, here's the thing: AFAIK, the Adobe peeps don't have access to XO machines, that's why before when I was reporting to Mike Melanson (http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/ Linux Flash guy at Adobe) the camera bug with Flash on the XO-1, he couldn't help much.
I'm relatively sure the Adobe peeps would love to help OLPC, and there should be no problem getting Flash freely distributed for bundling given the Open Screen Project. (manufacturers used to need to pay a licensing fee to bundle the Flash player in devices like mobile phones back in the early Flash Lite). I'm in touch with some folks at Adobe, and if you guys want, I can start asking around. There's a very large international Flash game developer community and I'm sure a number of Flash game developers would love to help out OLPC. Here's another thing to consider: If there was an easy way to have the equivalent of a shortcut that launches the browser and runs an SWF file, that should be good enough for a lot of Flash games. Given that you can have an entire app/game running in a single SWF file, that makes it friendlier to the XO given Sugar+Fedora's weird file management system (as compared to a multi-page HTML educational content package with JPG, PNG & GIF graphics). What do you guys think? Despite the fantastic work Rob Savoye & co are doing with Gnash, a lot of quality content is inaccessible. Is it really so bad to have a free as in beer closed-source runtime get bundled by OLPC if it will open so many doors? -Naz -- carlos nazareno http://twitter.com/object404 http://www.object404.com -- interactive media specialist zen graffiti studios http://www.zengraffiti.com -- "if you don't like the way the world is running, then change it instead of just complaining." _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel