Re: [Gnash-dev] Re: [Gnash] 0.8.2 status & OLPC

[Rob Savoye]

John Gilmore wrote:

> tickets from naive users.  The majority of the 40 support people have
> an attitude like, "Why do we bother shipping gnash anyway?  Any time
> somebody has trouble with it, which is all the time, we just have to
> suggest they replace it with Adobe's."

  Personally, many of the reported problems are all because the OLPC 
project can't ship the codecs Gnash needs. I am so sick of the codec 
issue I can barely talk. If the OLPC project can't ship the codecs Gnash 
needs, then screw it, ship Adobe, and don't bother those of use trying 
to fix the problem. I tried to talk them into adding Codec Buddy from 
Fedora to solve this problem with zero success.

> requires a support-tech login to access.  The majority are along the
> lines of "I went to site X (some kid site) and it doesn't work."  The
> standard Gnash maintainer response has always been, "Rip the binary

  I'm sorry, but that's total bullshit. *We* as Gnash developers do 
this reverse engineering ourselves, we mostly just ask people to give us 
the link, send us the swf file. I believe I'm the only Gnash developer 
who is also an OLPC developer, I don't don't believe I've *ever* said this.

        - rob -