On Jan 18, 2008 4:02 PM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
I think we also would like to know how the Kaltura product is ever expected to be "100%" free in accordance with our practice of only integrating free tools when it has a fundamental requirement on Adobe Flash, a proprietary format which can not be completely implemented without using patented technologies.
I have to echo this in particular, as well as the rest of Gregory's post. It seems to me that any conceivable web-viewable content we would like to provide to our viewers could easily be implemented using some combination of HTML, CSS, various image formats, JavaScript, and -- if necessary, for heavy-weight stuff -- Java. All of these are free and open-source except Java, which still has some proprietary components that Sun has pledged to get rewritten as open-source (so that's not *quite* ideal, but hopefully getting there).
In this particular instance, as Gregory says, I don't see anything at all that requires the involvement of Flash or other proprietary technologies. JavaScript should be perfectly sufficient, and apparently there's substantial existing community work already.