[Clipart] Re: [Openfontlibrary] Fwd: Adobe make Flash scripting Free Software with Mozilla Foundation

[Jon Phillips]

On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 11:37 +0000, Dave Crossland wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Thought this might be of interest to this list :-)

Yes, I apologize for cross-list posting, but this is pretty huge news
for Inkscape and others...

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Alex Hudson <home at alexhudson.com>
> Date: 07-Nov-2006 09:33
> Subject: [Fsfe-uk] Adobe make Flash scripting Free Software with
> Mozilla Foundation
> To: discussion at fsfeurope.org
> Cc: fsfe-uk at gnu.org
> 
> 
> 
> I'm not sure if people will have seen this with all the other noise
> about Novell etc.:
> 
>         http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/press/mozilla-2006-11-07.html
>         http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tamarin/faq.html
> 
> The scripting engine of Flash (which, from what I've been told, is very
> much like Javascript anyway) has been donated to Mozilla, and will be
> part of their future JS implementation (I gather).
> 
> In other Adobe news, people may have seen that they're building on other
> free software like WebKit:
> 
>         http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Apollo
> 
>         (RIA's == "Rich Internet Applications", FYI)
> 
> .. and Microsoft's XML Paper Specification seems to have scared them
> into doing:
> 
>         http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Mars
> 
> While Adobe haven't been terribly free software friendly in many ways in
> the past, it does seem like now is an opportune time to talk to them:
> they may be becoming more receptive to the needs of the free software
> community.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Alex.
> 
> 
> 
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