Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 1st May 2008 12:44 UTC
Just yesterday Mozilla Europe's Tristan Nitot predicted that Adobe might open source Flash one day if competition from Microsoft's Silverlight got too fierce. It seems as if he can look into the future, as today Adobe has announced the Open Screen Project. While not exactly an open source announcement, it does open the door a little bit more.
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RE: What does it mean for Open Source?
by liamdawe on Thu 1st May 2008 13:22
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RE[2]: What does it mean for Open Source?
by lemur2 on Thu 1st May 2008 13:35
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Well then 3 cheers for something finally happening, anyone else fedup of the amount of crashes Flash causes?
Adobe's Flash 9 binary blob crashes quite a bit when used in conjunction with Ubuntu Hardy Heron.
I believe this is due to Hardy's inclusion of PulseAudio ... apparently this is the piece that doesn't play well together with Adobe's flash 9 binary blob for Linux.
There is a library that you can get that does enable it to kinda work ... but there are still crashes.
I removed Adobe's Flash 9 blob, and installed Gnash 0.8.2-0ubuntu3 on my Ubuntu Hardy install ... I can still use Youtube, and I haven't had a crash yet (although I haven't been using it long). Certainly I can now do some actions without crashing that used to reliably crash Firefox 3beta5 viewing Youtbue using Adobe Flash 9.
RE[2]: What does it mean for Open Source?
by renox on Thu 1st May 2008 16:16
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Well then 3 cheers for something finally happening, anyone else fedup of the amount of crashes Flash causes?
Only if the browser architecture sucks: a plugin such as Flash should be in a different process and if the Flash process crash, this shouldn't make the browser crash, I've been told that Konqueror does it this way..
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Well, Adobe aren't promising to open source their own code.
So what does it mean for FOSS software?
* Publishing the device porting layer APIs for Adobe Flash Player
* Publishing the Adobe Flash Cast protocol and the AMF protocol for robust data services
* Removing licensing fees - making next major releases of Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR for devices free
What this means is that priority #3 of the FSF:
http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority.html
http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/
... can now work to open, unencumbered specifications and APIs.
This could accelerate it considerably. There will be no longer any need to reverse engineer the specs and APIs ... the programmers can just go ahead now and concentrate on coding the gansh implementation.
At the current version 0.8.2, gnash is really only beta quality software right now. It apparently supports flash v7 and pieces of v8 and v9.
Edited 2008-05-01 13:07 UTC