kgrad

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by kgrad 16y ago
I am sorry if you are offended by my ignorance. I am not currently arguing that the flash player provided by adobe is open. I conceded a while ago that the flash player provided by adobe is proprietary. However, an alternate flash player ex
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by kgrad 16y ago
I don't work for adobe, nor do I even code in flash. I am just ignorant on the subject and wish to be enlightened. edit: it's also not my first day commenting, I just forgot my old account and had to make a new one a little while ago.
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by kgrad 16y ago
edit: apparently adobe did open the RTMP spec? http://www.adobe.com/devnet/rtmp/ How does Gnash being built without Adobe tools do anything but further proving that you don't have to use adobe products to use/work with flash? I am not cla
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by kgrad 16y ago
Thanks for the link, you are certainly correct that adobes player is proprietary, but I provided you with a link to an alternate player... Just because something is hard to reproduce doesn't make it closed. Do you consider java closed becau
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by kgrad 16y ago
Which part of the definition does flash violate? Also, Apple doesn't give much credit to KDE with WebKit, they certainly like to imply that they are very open with it without mentioning its origins...
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by kgrad 16y ago
Can you qualify that statement? edit: You are correct, the player provided by Adobe is not open. However, anyone is free to make their own player, one alternative player is Gnash: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnash
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by kgrad 16y ago
Could someone please explain to me how Flash isn't open? To my knowledge, everything about flash is open other than Adobe's IDE. The spec has been released, the sdk is OSS and anyone is free to compile to SWF... Am I mistaken here?