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

[Samuel Klein]

Gnash is making some headway.   It needs more support and testing,
however.  Having more collections of media that are explicitly prepped
to work with Gnash players will make a tremendous difference to its
small core team, who aren't all that visible in the broader FOSS
community.

https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=gnash

SJ

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 3:12 AM, Brianna Laugher
<brianna.laugher at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
> --
> They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment:
> http://modernthings.org/
>
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