-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 04:17:47AM +0100, Ananda Samaddar wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > After one of my usual bored web browsing sessions I came across these > items: > > http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tamarin/ > http://applications.linux.com/comments.pl?sid=38263&cid=97469 > > Adobe have opened the source code to their Action Script virtual > machine (the Tamarin project) and the main developer of swfdec states > in the second link (if it's him) that Flash 8 Video support would be > easy to add to swfdec. What does everyone else think of this? I > personally find it shocking that a proprietary software product has > become a de facto web standard. Surely a FLOSS Flash player would go > some way to remedying such a reliance on a proprietary product? Am I > clutching at straws? We already have Gnash and swfdec but they are as > of yet not fully Flash 9 compatible. Will the Tamarin project be of > any use to them? > > regards, > > Ananda Samaddar > >
This is one of those subjects that becomes a question of standards; Whether to adhere to the standards or use only DFSG-free software. Personally I use only DFSG-free software, and I really don't find Gnash usable (Of course, if it was what would be the point of this topic?) There definitely needs to be a FLOSS alternative to Adobe's flash player, but I have to say browsing the internet without flash is actually much nicer than having flash. - -- <o) Debian GNU/Linux - Free as in Freedom - 100% DFSG Free /\\ http://digital-haze.net/~pobega/ - My Debian site and blog _\_V Window Maker user, Debian enthusiast, Mutt lover -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGGxLK/o7Q/FCvPe0RAt9yAJ9fsOhAH++AY2+uVtg8GDNLuVCJBwCgknhX j0ORmVmJDw+/VN1AO90tfrc= =irJ1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
