[OLPC-Philippines] GNASH evaluation

[Carlos Nazareno]

I'm in touch with John Koch who's Adobe relations manager for APAC :)

Maybe we can talk to him and the other Adobe guys I'm in touch with
about having OLPC Ph's localized custom rollout image to come shipped
with the Flash player plugin?

Linux Mint which is based on Ubuntu comes with the Flash plugin preinstalled.

Odds are they'll allow it :)

What do you guys think?

On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 7:36 PM, Jerome Gotangco <jgotangco at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 5:34 PM, Carlos Nazareno <object404 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The need for Gnash before was very understandable given that there was
>> no decent flash runtime for Linux, but now that Flash runs perfectly
>> fine on quite a number of distros (and Linux zealotry aside), I don't
>> see any solid reason on insisting on using Gnash aside from "it
>> doesn't come preinstalled on default XO images".
>
> It's not zealotry. It's this:
>
> http://www.adobe.com/products/clients/all_dist_agreement.html
>
> That means OLPC should do an agreement with Adobe to have the non-free
> flash binaries by default. Some Linux distributions, like Ubuntu does
> not ship flash non-free by default and instead provide a wrapper
> application that connects to Adobe servers to install flash non-free.
>
>
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