On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 07:20:56PM +0000, Olivier Reisch wrote: > A possibility could be to offer them to port the x86 plugin on our own, if > necessary under a NDA.
I have to wonder who would want to do work for them. Remember Macromedia is charging people for the Flash creation tools. Every bit of better player support they have increases their market for the creation tools. So just keep this in mind if you do this. You are working for them for free. On a project that's closed no less... > Another way to convince them could be to have Mandrake talk to them and offer > a port as premium software in the Mdk club, if necessary against a fee to > Macromedia (like with some other premium software, like Star Office...) > > Of course, that'd be the worst possible solution. A final try could be to code Actually this is a better solution than us doing it for them for free. The difference is if we do it for free we don't get any benefit. If the club does it then it benefits Mandrake and encourages PPC people to join the club. See the other thread about PPC and the club to see why this is a good thing. > our own open source flash plugin. As far as that is concerned, we'd need some > skilled developers to handle that and above all clear legal issues first... Here's an open source flash player: http://www.swift-tools.com/Flash/ I haven't tried this one (or at least not recently). In the past I tried open source flash players and well they stunk and were very buggy. Not that the closed source one isn't. But it's less so. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org Never take no as an answer from someone who isn't authorized to say yes.
