[haiku-development] Re: Adobe Flash on Haiku

> 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.

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