Re: GTK and Adobe Flash

[Hubert Figuiere <hub figuiere net>]

On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 21:09 -0400, Richard M Stallman wrote:
> I don't think any of the free software flash players handles Flash 9.
> Gnash has partly implemented it, but not completely; its maintainer
> says that swfdec is less advanced.
> 
> If that is true, it is a bad thing to use Flash 9, because you would,
> in effect, be pressuring people to use the non-free Adobe flash
> player.

Worse. Whatever is the state of the Free Software implementation, using
Flash is bad for Free Software, because Flash is not an open standard,
is a poorly documented format, and leverage non-royalty free
technologies like MP3, Sorenson Sparks, ON2 VP6, partial support of
MPEG4, etc.

So whatever version of Flash it is, it is not good for Free Software, on
an advocating point of view.

But we are really sliding off-topic now.

Hub