Hi, Alex Hudson elucidated on 08/11/06 09:43: > On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 03:25 +0000, Jon Grant wrote: >> All looks like a little improvement, hope they release the rest eventually >> >> I got this reply from Matt Rozen at Adobe: >> >> "Adobe doesn't currently have plans to open source Adobe Flash Player >> beyond what's being open sourced today." > > That's not totally surprising, and to be honest I don't expect them to > make it free software any time soon either.
RMS divided some examples I had given quite succinctly into two scenarios which could cause them to free/open Flash player as far as I can see. * When Adobe loose to MS or W3C etc they will open up :- i) as demonstrated by Netscape's browser ii) RealNetworks Helix project. * When Flash gets a competent replacement in the form of Gnash or an alternative plugin etc. i) As demonstrated by Troll releasing Qt X11 ii) and then Qt win32 only when a team are working on their own implementation. iii) Sun now freeing/opening Java because GCJ is a competent replacement. > I'm not totally sure why: they argue the standards thing, which is > mostly a bogus argument. Plus, their value isn't in Flash player at all: > it's in the Flash tools. Maybe they are just looking for points to prove why they don't have to free/open the tech. They don't have to be valid to be useful for PR! Cheers Jon _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
