> This is just so wrong. You've created an amazingly useful tool that not > only provides a fix for the Eolas issue but also provides a superior > method of embedding SWFs inside HTML pages. Adobe's thank-you should not > be to have their legal department contact you to change its name.
I totally agree. It's a bit like sending the dogs after your neighbour who noticed an empty can on your front lawn and picked it up for you. Apart from the whole style of it, I long wanted the community to finally distinct between "Flash (tm)" and "SWF". Mark On 4/21/06, Aral Balkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Geoff, > > This is just so wrong. You've created an amazingly useful tool that not > only provides a fix for the Eolas issue but also provides a superior > method of embedding SWFs inside HTML pages. Adobe's thank-you should not > be to have their legal department contact you to change its name. > > If this is Adobe's new policy, I hope that there will be some guidelines > posted to make their position public so we can all remove the word > "Flash" from our various community sites and open source projects. > > I guess FlashAnt would become SwfAnt and OSFlash, OSSWF? > > Is SWF not a trademark too? > > What a royal waste of time and resources. > > Aral > > > Geoff Stearns wrote: > > Just a sort of word of warning... > > > > Adobe recently asked me to rename my FlashObject script to something > > else because of trademark/legal issues. They are trying to protect > > their 'Flash' trademark, and apparently macromedia was a bit more > > relaxed about these things than Adobe is. > > > > So a word of warning to you all who use 'Flash' in the name of your > > projects - you might want to think about changing it. > > > > more details here: > > > > http://blog.deconcept.com/2006/04/21/flashobject-to-become-swfobject/ > > <snip> > > > _______________________________________________ > osflash mailing list > [email protected] > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > -- http://snafoo.org/ _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
