You sound like you were attacked, and it's not the case. There's nothing personal here. I know things are difficult to move as enterprise grows. And Adobe is huge to suffer that typical burocracy problem. It's normal.
I never was an Open Source fanatic and never said that Flash Player should be open source. For me that never was a problem. Sometimes propietary software are good, and others open source software are good too. But with this particular situation, maybe, we have now a true case where if we have had the source and rights people could help to develop a Linux Flash Player and now we could have linux versions shiping with the win /mac releases.
In my case, Mac is not an option, because I never had a client with such platform. Is great that Flash supports Mac, but for me the real problem in my case (and many others) is Linux. And don't worry, I know that you can't declare that Adobe has not be able to manage the situation right, due to your relation with Adobe.
For me, if this thread and others discusing the same, makes Adobe awake, and see the real importance of linux versions, this will be very profitable for your company and for us, your users.
Again, hope, we should not get this kind of things to personal terrain, cause we don't get nothing positive with that.
Best,
C.
2006/5/29, Nicolas Cannasse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I realize its fun to play the us-verses-the-big-bad-company game, but
> regardless, Flash Player 9 will be multiplatform at launch. That will
> be further strengthened once we release the Linux player.
>
> mike chambers
It's not about the "us-versus-the-big-bad-company", I don't think I ever
played that game. I've been creating and currently running a company so
I clearly understand what it means. As a developers relation guy, you
shouldn't try to attack people personally.
For a lot of people out there, "multiplatform" software means that you
can run it on a good number of platforms. That's not related to the
original meaning of the "multi" prefix. That's what I meant when I said
that "2 is the smallest multi". Insisting on the "multiplatform"
adjective seems like marketing at this current time. Usually software
developers will only claim that when it starts going like 3 or 4.
My first comment was ironic and I'm pretty sure most of the people got
it that way. Or maybe that's my sense of humour which is a bit
particular ? :)
Nicolas
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