Adobe Flash 10.1 + AIR 2.0 on the XO

[Ed McNierney]

Reuben -

You're welcome, but it wasn't much of an effort - I filled out a form on Adobe's Web site and replied to one email message!

	- Ed


On Mar 24, 2010, at 9:13 AM, Reuben K. Caron wrote:

> Ed,
> 
> Great news. Thanks for letting us know and thank you for doing the legwork to get that accomplished.
> 
> Reuben
> 
> On Mar 24, 2010, at 8:59 AM, Ed McNierney wrote:
> 
>> Folks -
>> 
>> OLPC already has a license from Adobe to redistribute Adobe Flash.  We can provide that to any deployment that requests it; if a deployment decides they need it, we don't need to force them to install it themselves.
>> 
>> However, Adobe pointed out that since OLPC's Linux distro (a Fedora Remix) is not a supported platform, they're not interested in bug reports unless they are reproduced on stock Fedora and reported as Fedora bugs.  Having spoken to Adobe about this, I found absolutely no evidence that anyone there's eager to do anything specific for OLPC XO laptops.
>> 
>> I also made no effort to sell them on the idea; I just wanted to be sure that if a deployment decided on their own that they needed to provide the Adobe Flash player, OLPC wasn't unreasonably making it harder than necessary for them.
>> 
>> 	- Ed
>> 
>> On Mar 24, 2010, at 8:53 AM, Reuben K. Caron wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> On Mar 24, 2010, at 7:52 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 12:19 AM, Reuben K. Caron
>>>> <reuben at laptop.org> wrote:
>>>>> IMHO, OLPC would be able to provide deployments with the option of
>>>>> including
>>>>> Adobe Flash, while continuing to include Gnash as default
>>>> 
>>>> There are some aspects that are outside of OLPC control
>>>> 
>>>> - We need RPMs from Adobe -- in the case if AIR, they are not
>>>> available. Carlos and anyone else interested _must chase Adobe_, not
>>>> OLPC.
>>> 
>>> Yes and no. Anyone technically capable to rebuild our build system, as
>>> you mention below, will be able to easily script the installation of
>>> AIR.
>>> 
>>>> - Licensing issues need to be sorted out. Carlos and anyone
>>>> interested _must chase Adobe_, not OLPC.
>>> 
>>> No again, OLPC should have done the legwork so deployments don't have
>>> to jump through the hurdles of obtaining licensing from Adobe.
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> - If Adobe cares about running well on XOs, Adobe should ask for
>>>> laptops through the contributors programme (like everyone else!).
>>>> Carlos any anyone interested must chase Adobe on that.
>>> 
>>> I'll work with Carlos on this.
>>> 
>>>> With those 2 sorted out, it's damned trivial to add it to an 8.2.x
>>>> build (using my latest patches to install arbitrary rpms), and thanks
>>>> to the more flexible build system for f11 builds it's trivial to add
>>>> it to an XO-1.5 image.
>>>> 
>>>> There is noone at OLPC blocking this. Go folks, go lobby Adobe.
>>> 
>>> Agreed.
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