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I personally think it is rather unlikely you'll get to that stage --
Macromedia has worked years to get incredible penetration numbers for
their player and you'll need to do something insanely brilliant with
your plugin to get people wanting to move over to adopt a third party
plugin especially considering the performance improvements we're
already seeing in the public Flash Player 8.5 alpha. Aside from that, if you would get to that stage it would likely cause Adobe to react with a "cease and desist", not necessarily because they do not back the idea of an open source high performance Flash player but as I've heard stated numerous times they do not want to get fragmented support for features. Imagine half a dozen different Flash players, each with their own distinct features that certainly wouldn't be a good thing for the end-user. Just my 0.2 cents worth ;) - Peter Jonas Beckeman wrote: My apologies for persisting... but I'd really like to hear your opinions on this very imaginary example:I complete my open source Flash player. It can play back any swf correctly. Mr X writes a browser plugin for it - assign .swf MIME in your browser to it and it will be used instead of Macromedia's player. It becomes hugely popular because of its superior speed (hello pixel shaders! ;) I live in Sweden. Mr X and the download server is in Nauru. It's all open source. Nobody makes any money from it. Adobe gets upset. What happens next? /Jonas |
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