Here is a message from the gnash team that I think is appropriate to forward to this thread.<br>thanks,<br>mike<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">John Gilmore</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gnu@toad.com">gnu@toad.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Sun, May 16, 2010 at 2:52 AM<br>Subject: [Gnash-dev] Gnash appears on Adobe's web site!<br>To: <a href="mailto:gnash-dev@gnu.org">gnash-dev@gnu.org</a><br><br><br>Adobe has a facetious campaign about how "open" they are, now that<br>
Apple has used its own iron fist to lock out Adobe products from the<br>
iPhone/iPad universe. Anybody who really knows anything about Adobe<br>
history knows it's a crock of shit -- Adobe only opens when the world<br>
forces them to -- but it's there to fool the rubes. Anyway, as part<br>
of this campaign, they have publicly admitted that Gnash exists, here:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.adobe.com/choice/flash.html" target="_blank">http://www.adobe.com/choice/flash.html</a><br>
<br>
They think the existence of Gnash helps to claim that Flash is open,<br>
despite all the years of never publishing specs, and using EULA<br>
anti-reverse-engineering threats. Then after the open community<br>
reverse engineered it, came the years of Adobe publishing bogus specs<br>
that didn't actually work, and which came with a EULA of their own<br>
that said you could use the specs for any purpose except to build a<br>
competing implementation (which they now claim "Anyone can use without<br>
requiring permission from Adobe"!). Not to mention all the patent and<br>
codec wars.<br>
<br>
Anyway, they end by namechecking "haXe; open source runtimes such as<br>
Gnash; and open source video servers such as Red5."<br>
<br>
It's really funny that when the big bully Apple comes after them, they<br>
go running to the free software community for protection. Maybe<br>
Dmitry Sklyarov can help 'em. I hear his company has some lawyers who<br>
know how to win cases against big bully companies.<br>
<br>
John<br>
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