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Re: Flash is open?



On 05/14/2010 02:42 AM, Camaleón wrote:
On Fri, 14 May 2010 02:16:21 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:

On 05/14/2010 01:52 AM, Camaleón wrote:

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http://www.openmedianow.org/?q=node/21

"(...) One reason for the lack of excitement over the project in the
free software world is that it omits "huge amounts" of information
needed for a complete implementation of Flash. In particular, Savoye
points out that the announcement contains no mention of the Real Time
Messaging Protocol (RTMP) that is required for the Flash media server.
Nor does it mention

That was released in July 2009.

the Sorenson Spark Codec that is used for video encoding in Flash 6 and

Adobe can't release it because they don't own it.

Then, there must be an error in Wikipedia "Adobe Flash¹" page.

Not at all.

It says: "Licence: Proprietary EULA">:-)

¹ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Flash


You seems to be conflating 3 different entities:
1. Adobe Flash
2. Adobe Flash Player
3. SWF file format

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