[haiku-web] Re: Update to the videos page - easy task?

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:31 PM, Jorge Mare <kokitomare@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Dennis d'Entremont
> <dennis.dentremont@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 9:24 PM, Sikosis <sikosis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> On another thought, has anyone from Haiku officially contacted Adobe
> about
> >> getting Flash support. Linux has support for flash ... Is it open
> sourced ?
> >> Anything we can reverse engineer ?
> >
> > As far as I know it's not open sourced (althought it should darn well
> be). I
> > have no idea what Adobe's intentions are but I do think that contacting
> them
> > is a good idea.
>
> Haiku is pre-alpha, has zero market share, and no business plan. This
> is not very compelling for a business like Adobe (and I am being
> diplomatic here).


While this is more or less true from what I can tell, there may be someone
internally who's more sympathetic to open source that we are aware.


>
>
> Realistically, I think you can't expect Adobe to be interested in
> Haiku at this point in time. If after R1 or R2 is released our
> developer/user base grow and Haiku reaches certain critical mass, then
> the story may be different; until then, the open source alternatives
> may be the only options for Flash support.


FWIW, My next comment here would be "You don't know if you don't ask". We
can assume all we want but unless we ask we won't really know. They might
surprise us (although I doubt it).

I suspect we would have to settle for the open source versions in the end.


>
> Jorge
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