[Foundation-l] Freedom, standards, and file formats

Mon Sep 29 07:12:16 UTC 2008

So Gnash is really not making any headway, hm?

regards,
Brianna

2008/9/28 Michael Snow <wikipedia at verizon.net>:
> To illustrate this with an example, maybe not the best but one that
> comes up often enough, consider video file formats. (Some of this is
> beyond my technical expertise, so please forgive any misstatements.)
> Adobe Flash has widespread adoption to the point of being
> near-universal. The company has also been moving to make it more open
> for people watching, distributing, and working on content in this
> environment. It's close to free, but I understand there are still some
> issues like patent "encumbrances" around Flash. Meanwhile, there are
> pure free software formats that do similar things but have pretty
> limited adoption.

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