> The company I work for has developed some fairly large Java client > applications (GlobeInvestorGOLD to name one, > http://gold.globeinvestor.com) and the developers who work on them don't > have very nice things to say about inconsistencies between VMs and VM > versions. I know they are regularly being called back to fix some bug > that affects just a single version of some VM.
There are inconsistencies between FP6, FP7 and FP8 that every so often require the need to call developers back. There are inconsistencies between the different Flash compilers. We are not living in a perfect world. This is not the question though. The question is why do people see the need of developing an alternative, open source and free Flash Player for Linux platforms. The answer is that the Flash Player is less free than we think and it's not available for many platforms (try to find a Flash Player for 64-Bit hardware, for example, or for other, more exotic platforms). Availability for those platforms is important if you want to position Flash as a "platform". I hope things will get better with the new FP8.5/Linux. Just my 2 centavos. cheers, claus. _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
