[OSM-talk] Flash and open source

[jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com]

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 9:51 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
<avarab at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 17:08, Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net>
> wrote:
> > Occasionally the subject of Flash and free software comes up here in
> > relation to Potlatch.
> >
> > I would encourage people to sign the petition at http://openplayer.net/
> > encouraging Adobe to make the Flash Player open source.
>
> Making their player open source would be nice. But what's mainly
> stopping players like Gnash is that their protocols are closed, and
> that anyone working on opening them up is subject to Adobe's legal
> team [1].
>
> Adobe is obviously aware of these issues, but chooses to keep their
> platform closed. An online petition is unlikely to change their mind.
>
> 1.
> http://www.chillingeffects.org/anticircumvention/notice.cgi?NoticeID=25159
>

I agree totally, we dont need the dirty source code, just some specs or even
the permission to reverse engineer.
mike
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