Re: [Fsfe-uk] BBC trial of embedded Flash video

[Dave Crossland]

On 21/05/07, Jon Grant <address@hidden> wrote:
> I expect that when GNU Flash is complete, Adobe will accept that there is
> no gain from proprietary Flash plugin then, and open it up to us

The $10M venture capital is for a reason: Adobe charges _a_lot_ of
money for embedding Flash in devices, and doesn't port it to most
devices. A free Flash technology platform - player and media server
primarily, authoring environment secondarily - that doesn't cost
millions _per_year_ in licensing, that you are free to port to
whatever architecture _your_ engineers decide is most appropriate for
your device, is worth paying for.

It is unlikely Adobe is going to cede that lucrative market without a fight.

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Regards,
Dave