im suggesting that we maintain a sense of humour, but also trying to highlight the absurd nature of this whole spec and licence business.
dev1: hey, the swf 9 spec is out, i just read it dev2: didnt you read the licence? now you've read the spec you cant write software to read swf's. dev1: dammit, you better write the swf reader code but whatever you do, *dont* ask my any questions. just pretend im not here. i think in this burgeoning climate of open-ness, having such tight usage restrictions on the spec is really counter productive. Of course, as Nicolas has demonstrated, if anyone really wants to they'll just find out what they need by discovery, it might take a little while longer, but it will be done. All i can see is that this licence actually hinders the evolution of the flash ecosystem. i was going to read it, but now i better not in case i ever get any work that requires me to build something that reads swfs. martin. John Dowdell wrote: > Martin Wood-Mitrovski wrote: >> just be careful when they ask >> 'did you read the spec?' >> 'the what?' >> then you'll be fine. > > If you're suggesting intentional deception, then that wouldn't quite be > so fine.... > > jd _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
