Why a Free Software version of Flash is great for business
Flash is the most common technology for animations and videos on the web, and GNASH is the GNU software for playing those files. This is considered to be one of the most urgently needed pieces of Free Software at the moment, and is relatively unknown as it was only annouced in January of this year.
This week the big news for GNASH is the Mozilla and Adobe annoucement that Adobe would release an large part of Flash code under the Mozilla Public License and the GNU General Public License. While this is important news, its well covered elsewhere on the web.
Instead, the best thing I read about GNASH this week was a simple post on the Gnash mailing list, where it was a pleasure to see a clear business case for GNASH specifically and why Free Software is so business-friendly in general.
From: Udo Giacomozzi Date: 08-Nov-2006 10:33 Subject: Re[2]: [Gnash] Gnash cannot legally play animations created with MM tools? Hello Rob, Wednesday, November 8, 2006, 5:17:16 AM, you wrote: RS> More reasons to have a truly free Flash player… Agree. BTW, we *tried* to get a commercial licence for the embedded Flash player, which would also have been a reason to switch the device processor to something Flash-supported. But it appears you simply can forget about that unless you plan to ship 100,000 devices… As we develop custom software for devices in low volumes (after all the short development time for Flash content is so attractive for us) we can’t afford that. Udo
The Why a Free Software version of Flash is great for business by David Crossland, except the quotations and unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
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