[OLPC-Philippines] Awesome OLPC PH SIG booth at Software Freedom Day in Quezon City

[Jerome Gotangco]

On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 1:43 AM, Carlos Nazareno <object404 at gmail.com> wrote:
> IMHO, Flash as proprietary is just about as evil as Java is proprietary ;)

Java is not. It's more than that. It's free software. Even the FSF
uses Java now.

http://www.sun.com/software/opensource/java/

> Adobe has opened up Flash specs with the Adobe Open Screen project and
> has committed to keeping docs on the specs, etc open to everyone at no
> charge.
>
> Furthermore, I don't think this should be much of an issue in term's
> of "proprietary evilness" because OLPC project itself has agreed to
> ship versions of XO with MS Windows, and that's about as evil in
> proprietariness as you can get :P

It is. I forgot to point out the main issue. That is, if you ship
Adobe flash to a bunch of machines, they'll work. But when an update
to the system is applied, the 3rd party binaries break (like Adobe
flash and Opera). In a production deployment perspective, this just
doubles the maintenance work. Hence, it is advised to make things
compatible with Gnash as much as possible for now.

-- 
Jerome