@Tom, I see your point and anticipate many others. We have the choice to be part of the problem or the solution. Let's say there is a show blocker, a piece of proprietary technology that we cannot engineer ourselves. I have two answer to that. First, I see a huge PR campaign to tell the world "see, we the open source community could not do it, neither can you, now a round of applause for the innovation piece of technology and the company that R&Ded it." Second, I will find a way to have Adobe gibe it to us. I know too well how they go to the hardware acceleration of the MacBook themselves. Say thank you to the lawyers of the Federal Trade Commission.
All it means is that the GNU misses the leadership to pull it off and make alliances, which is usually the pitfall of the nonprofit open source community and its allergy to corporations, without to mention the fear of IRS. I was blown away for instance that Apache could not provide tech support to enterprise. We lost an entire market over the lake of reliable support. On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 12:56 AM, Tom Chiverton <t...@extravision.com> wrote: > I wish you well, but the idea has been tried a number of times before, and > because it wasn't able to use the Adobe Flash hardware abstraction layer to > access accelerated / battery optimised decode and display, never mind video > DRM, they tended to top out around compatibility with Flash Player v9 or > v10. > > For instance, it's been a top GNU project 'wish list' for years now: > https://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/ > > Tom >
