> A) We think OSFlash and the OSFlash community is great. Thanks for your clarifications, David. I doubt it will silence the conspiracy theories, but it's still nice to hear once in a while.
If I may be a bit cheeky, you know it would help both OSFlash and RIAForge if the Adobe legal department could come up with some sort of can/can't do matrix to explain the popular OS licenses for mortals, specifically how "linking" in the sense of the LGPL translates to SWFs... :) Mark On 10/19/06, David Mendels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of João Saleiro > > "Maybe I'm a bit naive, but I think we should contact Adobe to know > > definitely their position about OS, OsFlash community" > > I'm from Adobe: > > A) We think OSFlash and the OSFlash community is great. > B) Many of us subscribe to the list and Adobe itself has contributed OS > projects to OSFlash (Mike Chambers Javascript Connection kit). You may > recall Kevin Lynch even showed OSFlash at one of the conference keynotes he > did last year. Having a rich OS ecosystem around Flash is good for all of > us. I won't comment on specific projects here because I don't know enough > about all of them. > C) RIAForge was driven by Ben Forta (an Adobe Employee) and Ray Camden (a > member of the developer community) and a few others. Ben is a senior > evangelist for us; he is also a member of the developer community himself and > has written many books outside of his role as an Adobe employee. Like Mike > Chambers, and Ted Patrick and others you may know, Ben was a prolific and > visible member of the community before we (actually, Allaire in this case) > hired him. We give people like Ben quite a lot of autonomy and while we have > a lot of internal coordination, my belief is that folks like Ben and Mike are > best for us and for the community when they are not tightly controlled by a > tops down beaurocracy. So apologies for not communicating better internally > and with this group in advance, but that is the kind of error one makes if > one lets people do projects like this with some autonomy. > D) It is not our intent to own this, but we did register the domain name. > This was build in collabotion with Ray and other folks outside Adobe and it > would be wrong for us to claim that it is a pure Adobe effort. > E) It is related but very different in scope to OSFlash. I didn't expect a > conflict. I hope both thrive. > > Hope this helps, > David > > _______________________________________________ > osflash mailing list > osflash@osflash.org > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list osflash@osflash.org http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
