Re: [Fsfe-uk] Yesterdays Defective by Design event in London

[Alex Hudson]

On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 15:50 +0100, MJ Ray wrote:
> Others know Free Flash better than I do.  Last I saw was 
> http://web.archive.org/web/20050205034327/http://www.affs.org.uk/~alex/HowDoWeReplaceFlash
> which seems to have been removed from www.affs.org.uk since.
> Anyone know where that info lives now?

It got taken down because of spam abuse; we do still have it, but it
does really need to be updated.

Gnash is on my list of things to try out, but I'd love to hear from
anyone who's tried it.

Flash is relatively non-DRM'd; to be honest, it's just not that great a
media delivery system anyway. Vector animation it does outstandingly
well, video and audio are definitely poor cousins.

Like MJ, I have no particular love of Adobe, and it's a shame that they
continue to peddle the 'must be 100% compatible' meme when asked about a
free software player. It's mostly within their purview (granted maybe
not mp3, etc.) and Sun have seemed to have given up the same excuse for
free Java.

Cheers,

Alex.