On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 02:39:13PM +0100 or thereabouts, Stephen Tait wrote: > At 14:09 20/09/2004, you wrote: > >BTW Flash technology is OPEN Source, it's NOT proprietary. Too much is said > >that's not accurate regarding Flash. > > I was under the impression that flash is open source in the same way as > PDF; the format is open, but the big-time applications (FlashMX, Acrobat) > are very heavily closed. The same can be said of Macromedia's flash player, > and it's lack of open-sourced-ness and dragging of heels in Macromedia > means it's slow and perpetually out of date.
Out of date? They seem to be producing updates rather frequently these days... There are a plethora of fine applications, that are equally as good as Macromedia's FlashMX 2004 Standard. See; <http://www.openswf.org/> and for a list of Flash projects in development in the OSS community; http://sourceforge.net/search/ Enter 'swf' as the query string and one will get over 3 pages of Flash Applications. > Are there any open source drop-in replacements for the flash player? I didn't do an exhaustive search but here's one; <http://sourceforge.net/projects/tubesock/> -- Steve +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Monday Sep 20 2004 10:06:01 AM EDT +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Sometime in 1993 NANCY SINATRA will lead a BLOODLESS COUP on GUAM!!
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