Quoting Robinson Tryon <[email protected]>:
Stepping back from just Gnash for a moment, this thread has brought up several other questions about Flash content in conjunction with Meego: - Should the "stock" Meego support Flash content?
How does Android deal with Flash? Also, will Apple be forced by the market to support it?
- Should the "stock" Meego include a tool (FOSS, natch) for playing Flash content? (Gnash?)
That's a tough call, given my less than stellar experiences with Gnash. In the end, I suspect you'd end up doing what openSUSE has done - ship an open source "pullin the Adobe plugin" package and force the user to accept an Adobe EULA to play Flash content.
And what about integration questions for vendors? Some vendors will take the "stock" Meego and add in the proprietary Adobe Flash Player for their devices, just as they currently do with other platforms.
That implies existence of a port of the proprietary Adobe Flash Player, which in turn implies business negotiations of some kind.
Can't we just say, "Steve Jobs is right - Flash is a can of worms and if it's bad enough for Steve not to do, who are we to argue?" ;-) Can't we access our inner two-year-olds and just say "NO!"??
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