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

[Ian Lynch]

On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 09:45 +0100, Dave Crossland wrote:
> 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.

But how do the VCs get their money back? Where is the revenue stream to
pay them their 10m back with a 70% internal rate of return?

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