Re: [Fsfe-uk] Adobe make Flash scripting Free Software with Mozilla Foundation

[Jon Grant]

Hi,

[...]
>       http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Mars
> 
> While Adobe haven't been terribly free software friendly in many ways in
> the past, it does seem like now is an opportune time to talk to them:
> they may be becoming more receptive to the needs of the free software
> community.

All looks like a little improvement, hope they release the rest eventually

I got this reply from Matt Rozen at Adobe:

"Adobe doesn't currently have plans to open source Adobe Flash Player
beyond what's being open sourced today."

"Adobe is committed to contributing to the developer community on
multiple fronts, including the company's work with Mozilla, Adobe Labs
projects, publicly available software development kits (SDKs) and file
specifications, plans to use the open source HTML engine (WebKit) in
Apollo, and our efforts with standards bodies."

Re PDF, it's never been as portable an experience as they say for me.
Many times I get PDFs which render wrong because odd fonts have been
used.  Also every time they bump the version up (currently v1.6?) all my
older GNU+Linux installs have trouble handling the newer files (Like the
power inquiry PDFs).  The same is true when using Adobe Acrobat/Reader as
well in my families experience.

Cheers
Jon