> Ryan Leavengood wrote: > > So I was thinking that there is probably about zero chance that > > Adobe > > would port Flash to Haiku, at least in the foreseeable future. But > > they have made a Linux version, even supporting the latest Flash 9. > > So > > if we want to get Flash support on Haiku, there are at least two > > options: > > When Flash was a Macromedia product, they were quite good at > licensing > it to people (so people could add flash support to their embedded > devices for example). A company called the General Coffee Company > paid > up the money for the SDK and produced the Flash 4 plugin for BeOS. > Now > obviously it was closed source and required an investment from the > company to get the docs, but it still showed a willingness from > Macromedia to support 3rd party ports. I've found the page on Adobe's > site to show they still support this licensing model: > http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer_sdk/ > I've heard about licencing negociations with macromedia (guess what for) which involved paying quite a lot, much more than realistic, and they weren't much flexible... maybe now Adobe owns it it's better, dunno... Still, flash is bad anyway. :p François.