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[News] Salasaga Bridges Flash Gap for GNU/Linux Users

Salasaga burns brightly at its start

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| Salasaga is a cross-platform effort available for GNU/Linux, BSD, Solaris 
| Nevada, and Windows. You can install it on GNU/Linux from source code, or by 
| downloading packages for Gentoo, Fedora, or Ubuntu. Its dependencies include 
| at least version 2.10 of Glib and GTK+, version 1.16 of Pango, version 2.6.30 
| of libxml2, and version 0.4.0.beta5 of Ming, which provides the Flash 
| capacity. Installation by any means adds a menu item to the Graphics menu on 
| the GNOME desktop.      
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http://www.linux.com/feature/129887

Still waiting for Flash

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| Adobe has the ability to make this job a lot easier. Your editor has heard, 
| informally, that the company has taken a less hostile position toward the 
| Gnash developers than it had in the past, but it certainly is still not 
| helping them. The Flash specifications are not available to anybody trying to 
| create a Flash player, and, unsurprisingly, the Flash EULA forbids any sort 
| of reverse engineering. That EULA, incidentally, also forbids running Adobe's 
| player on any "non-PC device," including tablets and phones. That restriction 
| suggests that Adobe sees business opportunities in the lack of a free Flash 
| player for such systems and intends to ensure that this scarcity continues. 
| So, despite the occasionally friendly noises Adobe has been making toward the 
| Linux community, we should not expect a great deal of help from that 
| direction.           
| 
| Someday, people will figure out that closed standards (like Flash) are best 
| avoided. Meanwhile, Flash is a fact of life that we will need to deal with. 
| It appears that we are getting closer to being able to deal with it - but we 
| are not there yet.   
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http://lwn.net/Articles/272615/

There are also some former Microsoft employees and associates to shoot down Ogg
Vorbis when it's proposed for inclusion in HTML.


Related and recent:

Adobe releases DRM tool for Flash video

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| With a price tag of $40,000 per CPU, the tool is aimed at broadcasters and 
| site operators that use Flash to serve streaming video. 
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http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2212474/adobe-releases-drm-tool-flash


Adobe Pushes DRM for Flash

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| Now Adobe, which controls Flash and Flash Video, is trying to change that 
| with the introduction of DRM restrictions in version 9 of its Flash Player 
| and version 3 of its Flash Media Server software. Instead of an ordinary web 
| download, these programs can use a proprietary, secret Adobe protocol to talk 
| to each other, encrypting the communication and locking out non-Adobe 
| software players and video tools. We imagine that Adobe has no illusions that 
| this will stop copyright infringement -- any more than dozens of other DRM 
| systems have done so -- but the introduction of encryption does give Adobe 
| and its customers a powerful new legal weapon against competitors and 
| ordinary users through the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).         
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http://www.gnashdev.org/?q=node/51

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