I think open and closed is too broad... and their definitions are moot. If anything Flash is a daywalker. A half breed. Its a creature of the night but it can exist during the day. It doesn't have to feed on human blood but you wouldn't want to be around him when he's hungry. especially on the feast of a thousand moons. unless of course you've been turned. and in vampire society there's pure blood and non-pure blood (the turned). pure bloods are born-vampires, offspring that were conceived between two turn-blood or born vampires. both carries with it a specific connotation that is reflected in their society and hierarchy.
...what were we talking about? On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Guy Morton <[email protected]> wrote: > > > It's PUBLISHED. That's not the same as OPEN. > > Open formats, like SVG, are generally developed by a standards > organisation, with input from any interested parties. Open formats, by > definition, can be used without restriction by anyone. > > Proprietary formats, like Flash, are defined and controlled by private > organisations, like Adobe. They may publish their format spec to encourage > use of it, but they don't hand over control of it to a standards > organisation. > > So Flash is a published, but proprietary, format. HTML and SVG, are open > formats. > > Guy > > > On 04/05/2010, at 11:31 PM, Jeffry Houser wrote: > > > > > This is actually wrong. the SWF format is open and documented for all to > use ( http://www.adobe.com/devnet/swf/ ). Are you aware of any > restrictions placed upon use of the specification that do not make it open? > > Adobe's Flash Player, on the other hand, is very proprietary. > > --- In [email protected] <flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>, Guy > Morton <g...@...> wrote: > > > > On 04/05/2010, at 9:39 AM, Oleg Sivokon wrote: > > > SWF is not a proprietary format, > > > > Yes. It. Is. > > > >
