On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 9:51 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <ava...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 17:08, Richard Fairhurst <rich...@systemed.net> > wrote: > > Occasionally the subject of Flash and free software comes up here in > > relation to Potlatch. > > > > I would encourage people to sign the petition at http://openplayer.net/ > > encouraging Adobe to make the Flash Player open source. > > Making their player open source would be nice. But what's mainly > stopping players like Gnash is that their protocols are closed, and > that anyone working on opening them up is subject to Adobe's legal > team [1]. > > Adobe is obviously aware of these issues, but chooses to keep their > platform closed. An online petition is unlikely to change their mind. > > 1. > http://www.chillingeffects.org/anticircumvention/notice.cgi?NoticeID=25159 > I agree totally, we dont need the dirty source code, just some specs or even the permission to reverse engineer. mike
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