[haiku-web] Re: Update to the videos page - easy task?
- From: Serpentor <serpentor013@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-web@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 07:43:03 -0600
FWIW, as BeOS/Be Inc was on the down hill slide, the General Coffee Company
(who did the original port of the Flash Player to BeOS) asked Adobe at the
time if they could port the newer version of Flash Player (6 or 7). Adobe
said "Sure, if you pay us $10,000(US) for the right to do it!" Needless to
say, The General Coffee Company could not come up with the money and the
port was never done. I am with Dennis on this one, maybe we should just
ask. There is a chance we may catch the attention of someone sympathetic to
our cause and they might help us. We may find an old BeOS enthusiast in
there. At the very least, we can let Adobe know that we are out here and
would like the Flash Player on Haiku at some point.
Now that I think about it, I do have a buddy that worked for Adobe at one
point. He quit and started his own company that build high end Flash
applications but worked very closely with Adobe the whole time. He has
since sold that business but I will get in touch with him and see if he
still has any contacts at Adobe. Maybe we can get something going or at
least get honest answers via that route.
Serpentor
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 4:16 AM, Dennis d'Entremont <
dennis.dentremont@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> 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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