Here is a message from the gnash team that I think is appropriate to forward to this thread. thanks, mike
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: John Gilmore <g...@toad.com> Date: Sun, May 16, 2010 at 2:52 AM Subject: [Gnash-dev] Gnash appears on Adobe's web site! To: gnash-...@gnu.org Adobe has a facetious campaign about how "open" they are, now that Apple has used its own iron fist to lock out Adobe products from the iPhone/iPad universe. Anybody who really knows anything about Adobe history knows it's a crock of shit -- Adobe only opens when the world forces them to -- but it's there to fool the rubes. Anyway, as part of this campaign, they have publicly admitted that Gnash exists, here: http://www.adobe.com/choice/flash.html They think the existence of Gnash helps to claim that Flash is open, despite all the years of never publishing specs, and using EULA anti-reverse-engineering threats. Then after the open community reverse engineered it, came the years of Adobe publishing bogus specs that didn't actually work, and which came with a EULA of their own that said you could use the specs for any purpose except to build a competing implementation (which they now claim "Anyone can use without requiring permission from Adobe"!). Not to mention all the patent and codec wars. Anyway, they end by namechecking "haXe; open source runtimes such as Gnash; and open source video servers such as Red5." It's really funny that when the big bully Apple comes after them, they go running to the free software community for protection. Maybe Dmitry Sklyarov can help 'em. I hear his company has some lawyers who know how to win cases against big bully companies. John _______________________________________________ Gnash-dev mailing list gnash-...@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnash-dev
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