Although I think that Mike has post only true asserts, and MM could have the possibility to take legal actions with some reverse enginered osflash project... I think that is a dangerous way, because they want to enter in the great business and wants their software gains recognition, and they need a huge legion of developers supporting their platform and making open source flash projects. They gain direct benefits from this relation and as Jhon Grden post, if some enterprise wants to go the flash way but they are "introducing" the technology, they could first go the os way with projects like RED5, and then go the commercial way if they want commercial support.
I don't think that MM would take legal considerations with os related things (if people don't do real silly things) because they need that projects as we need it to push the platform and extend it in the coming years. 2005/10/26, Zárate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > I'm also not a lawyer, and i agree with Nicolas. Seems like MM is > playing somehow with the OS community. I don't know if AMFPHP has any > legal issue, but what i can see is that MM is clearly "supporting" it: > > http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/search/index.cfm?loc=en_us&term=amfphp > > So i don't understand why now "maybe AMFPHP is not legal enough"... > > Bye > > On 10/26/05, Nicolas Cannasse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am not familar enough with these projects to know what their issues > > > might or might not be. But just to be clear, I believe the issue of > > > whether or not protocols can be reverse engineered is settled law. > > > > It might sound crazy, but I don't care about law :) > > > > If I think that some reverse engineering is justified *moraly* then I'll do > > it, while betting that the EU law is ok with it. If I get sued, I'll stand > > and claim my rights to do what I did, with the strong hope of winning the > > case of course. > > > > It's quite of bad idea for Macromedia to make peopl doubt on its intentions > > towards reverse engineering. They say "we will publish the specs... later > > but before this time be careful in what you're doing.... for other projects > > as well". It has a name : FUD. And this thread is a typical FUD thread. I'm > > not saying we shouldn't talk about it, but noone here is a lawyer, so in the > > last call we should rely on our morality and our sense of good and evil that > > the law is supposed to enforce. > > > > Again, that's an EU guy opinion, I understand the situation in the US is a > > bit different, but that shouldn't mean people can't fight for more > > liberties. Also, OSFlash is hosted in UK I guess. > > > > I'll give also some links that most of you already know : > > http://www.eff.org > > http://www.gnu.org > > > > Nicolas > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > osflash mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > > > > > -- > Zárate > > _______________________________________________ > osflash mailing list > [email protected] > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > -- ::| Carlos Rovira ::| http://www.carlosrovira.com _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
