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
I don't agree with other people comments about the "danger" of having
another Player. While it's true there might not be space for another
FlashPlayer for the Web, I think another Player would still be useful
for some usages :
- integrate into Desktop Apps
- embedded systems / mobiles
- better support of "exotic" platforms (Linux?)
- studying the architecture of such software
- experiment new features
And most of all : fun to develop
There is several problems with Adobe Flash Player, like the fact that
you can't redistribute/embed it directly. In general, it's not nice for
a platform to have one single closed source implementation, since you
can't modify it for your own needs.
Nicolas
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