On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Carlos Nazareno <[email protected]> wrote: > I know most people here prefer free as in Libre as opposed to free as > in beer, but what do you think of coordinating with Adobe to get Flash > 10.1 + AIR 2.0 on the XO?
Flash 10 AFAIK is available as an rpm, so a local deployment hoping to add it in their local image can do so easily. The current AIR "stable" is not available as rpm apparently, and that's causing some people a lot of pain. The preview binaries of their next major release are available as rpms. > Adobe already supports a lot of open-source initiatives and have > already open-sourced the Flex SDK which you can use to compile SWFs Unlikely that it's "open source" in the OSI sense, so let's not fall into that trap -- they opened up some of their code. > Also, Adobe blabla bla Look, I have worked for many years on the Shockwave and Flash platforms. Unless your clients are paying you real money to develop with it, it's honestly a PoS and there is no reason to celebrate it. There is just a ton of content in that damn format. Most of is bad quality, a vanishingly small % is passably good... but whoever owns it loves it, good or bad, because they paid good $ for it ;-) > Also, Flash is the most commonly used toolset for building educational > apps. Again, I have worked for many years in exactly that industry. That content... is of very low educational quality. Extremely low. Ridiculously low. > What do you guys think? That you've applied for a job at Adobe, or will do it soon ;-) Honestly, there is no point to what you propose: the only thing needed for integration work is for Adobe to make a good rpm of their current stable AIR. Maybe they can test it, and tune it for the XO-1.5. cheers, m -- [email protected] [email protected] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
