Adobe bashes open-source alternatives
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| It's well and good to look at things from the user's perspective, but in this
| case it leads to a false dichotomy. Loiacono appears to be considering only
| outside open-source alternatives such as Inkscape or the Gimp.
|
| There's nothing technological stopping Adobe from releasing software that's
| both open-source as well as integrated and easy to use. But it's misleading
| to point to the shortcomings of others' open-source software as a reason why
| Adobe shouldn't open-source its own.
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http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9762967-7.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=NewsBlog
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For Adobe, a tough lesson in (open-source) diplomacy
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| The brouhaha had to be painful for Adobe, a community-friendly company that
| likes to think of itself as a kinder, gentler outfit than arch-rival
| Microsoft . But here Adobe was, accused of using its overwhelming position in
| PDF software to make money at the expense of smaller companies -- the very
| sort of behavior that earned Microsoft a bad rap in Silicon Valley.
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http://blogs.business2.com/utilitybelt/2007/08/for-adobe-a-tou.html
Making Gnash: a well-deserved name?
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| Gnash is the Free Software Foundation’s alternative Adobe Flash player.
| Version 0.8 is the third alpha release, and frankly, it rocks! It is
| also one of the first projects to be covered by the GPLv3.
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs/making_gnash
Interview with Rob Savoye of Gnash, the GPL Flash project
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| 6. What features does the current version of Gnash support?
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| We support a large chunk of ActionScript2 classes, and Flash v7
| movies. There is some support for v8 starting to get added as it's
| not very difference from v7. Although streaming video currently works
| in CVS, it's not fully functional yet. I find that Gnash plays them
| ajority of web pages Flash ads (unfortunately), and many movies
| randomly grabbed from the net. Many of us are using Gnash as our
| only Flash player without much trouble.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Stewart/?p=177
Flash Development Revolutionized with the Open-Source Release of Gaia Flash
Framework
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| The Gaia Flash Framework has already earned the praise of high-profile
| coders including world-renowned Flash and Flex developer Jesse Warden.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/070612/netu013.html?.v=16
Gnash [Open Source Flash] 0.8.0 release made
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| Gnash supports the majority of Flash opcodes up to SWF version 7, and
| a wide sampling of ActionScript classes for SWF version 8.5. All the
| core ones are implemented, and many of the newer ones work, but may be
| missing some of their methods.
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http://gnashdev.org/?q=node/35
Ryan, Open Source, and Flash
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| A few weeks back, I had dinner in Seattle with Ryan Stewart and Brian
| Zug. Over the course of several hours we covered a number of topics,
| including a crash course in open source software. Yesterday Ryan posted
| some of what he learned during our conversation, including his
| conclusions about whether or not open sourcing the Flash Player
| was a good idea.
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http://www.sauria.com/blog/2007/04/12/ryan-open-source-and-flash/
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