Thanks for the links, but can you summarize their import here, beyond suggesting Adobe is deepening Linux support for the Flash platform? My point was simply that just because a single company makes your software is no guarantee of ongoing support. Companies change their priorities, just like open source developers do. For example, IBM recently dropped the work it had been doing on Linux accessibility.
-- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis On 8/9/07, John Dowdell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > History shows that having Adobe develop your Flash Player is no > > guarantee of continuous support. The Adobe Flash Player on Linux > > skipped an entire version of the specification. During the interval > > (August 2005 to January 2007), some new Flash web content simply > > didn't work on Linux. > > If you're worried about such thoughts, then checking into history might help: > http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2006/12/linux_06_wrapup.cfm > http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2006/11/betlem_on_linux.cfm > http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2006/10/linux_player_di.cfm > > jd > > _______________________________________________ > 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
