Re: [europa-build-workshop] CBI

[Pete Mackie <pete@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Flash is free and so are the development tools. Why does it need
to be open source?

I guess I don't understand what common enough complete 
enough means? Flash is on 98% of all PCs. As for complete,
what features are lacking that we would need?

Pete

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At 01:51 PM 11/28/2006, Andrew Overholt wrote:
> * Pete Mackie
> <pete@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [2006-11-28 12:43]:
> > 
> > There would be one client Web page for PDE builds written in Flash,
> using
> > Adobe Flex 2 for development. Flash is on over 95% of computers in
> use
> > and auto-loads if it isn't, only via user permission. (If you have
> ever
> > viewed a YouTube video, then you already have flash
> installed.)
>
> Flash is a non-starter IMO.  It's isn't Free or Open Source Software
> and
> there are no common enough -- or complete enough? -- OSS
> implementations.
>
> Andrew