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

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 3:16 AM, Dennis d'Entremont
<dennis.dentremont@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 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.

Big businesses are not sympathy-driven. :)

>> 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).

There is no need to ask what we already know. I have a pretty good
idea of what it could take to get Adobe interested in a Flash
solution; I met one of their directors back in the Zeta days together
with Bernd Korz, and we went through the whole exercise.

Trust me: Haiku is nowhere near to what Adobe would require (in terms
of product maturity, market scale, etc.) to allow a port of Flash. And
even if we waved a magic wand and Haiku met those requirements
tomorrow, we would still have to pay BIG money, which we don't have
nor can we afford.

I don't like to disappoint people, nor am I trying to be pessimistic.
But we have to be realistic: Haiku has a very long way to go before it
even appears in the horizon of big businesses like Adobe, and whether
it gets there or not, only time will tell.

Jorge
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