Re: Macromedia Flash player distribution
Am Freitag, den 12.08.2005, 07:55 +0200 schrieb Finn-Arne Johansen:
> Eldon Koyle wrote:
> > On Aug 12 0:03+0200, Finn-Arne Johansen wrote:
> >
> >>Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> >>
> >>>[Vidar Bakke]
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>But we can't make it available as a download
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>We can't put it on the CD without making it available for download.
> >>>
> >>
> >>Unless we change the way we build the CD ..
> >>
> >
> >
> > Is that wise? Is there anything on the CD that requires flash? If not,
> > then the user will probably not need macromedia's flash plaugin unless
> > they have internet access, in which case why not save yourself some
> > trouble and use the flashplugin-nonfree package from contrib?
>
> The trouble by using an installer that downloads from the internet is
> that many sites install without an internett connection, and that the
> last step has to be done after the server is connected to the net.
> Remember that we are talking about a server solution that works out of
> the box.
>
There are some free alternatives:
http://swift-tools.net/Flash/
http://www.schleef.org/swfdec/
and probably more:
http://osflash.org/doku.php?id=open_source_flash_projects&DokuWiki=d46b49adfe7b9e4aa76a72dded6571e3
We should probably consider life without Macromedia.
HTH
David
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