Hi Claus, Just to put my question into context -
I opened this can of worms, because I feel the need for this community to try to participate in the Gnash project, in order to try to steer it in a direction that will be mutually beneficial for developers and users. If Gnash is successful (which is entirely possible) but creates a variant of the flash platform, we're all in trouble. My course of action would be to lobby the FSF + GNU developers to do their utmost to maintain the standards that are already in place. I am all for a free version of flash, and I am all for increasing its ubiquity, but the only way I can see this happening is if Gnash maintains the same features and compatability that the commercial players do. I hope this clears up my point of view, Alias On 1/31/06, Claus Wahlers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ...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 > _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
