[Gllug] Creating SWF content on Linux

[Simon Perry]

- Tethys wrote:
> On 8/24/06, Daniel P. Berrange <dan at berrange.com> wrote:
> 
>> Point me to the same end-to-end open source coverage for Flash.
> 
> Irrelevant. The existence of free software has no effect on whether or
> not a format is proprietary. True, it may make one format more
> practical to use that another, but that's all. Since the OP was asking
> for free software tools to create SWF, claiming the format is at fault
> is surely the wrong approach. Since the specs for SWF have long been
> available (indeed, I have a copy of an old version sitting on my hard
> drive at home, IIRC), it seems reasonable to ask about free tools to
> work with that format...
> 
> Tet (who would avoid both Java and SWF from preference)

My original comment about not using SWF was a tongue in cheek one.
Though the following article seems to suggest that java may well become
open source.

http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/08/java_opensource_roadmap.html

For what it is worth I would avoid both from preference as well.

Simon
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