[Gnash] Report from CCC / 24C3

[Markus Gothe]

It was a nice happening, all the c-base are belong to I ;)

What concerned me was the "DNS Rebinding 'bug'" demonstrated by Dan  
Kaminsky, whom I am waiting for further info on how to avoid it (and  
why it works with Adobe Flash player). He has been working with Adobe  
on this and I asked him about gnash, but he hadn't tried it out. Also  
he was the only speaker AFAIK who *really* missed Rob's attendance.

Issue number two, the OLPC guys from Austria had no idea about what  
gnash is and how the web-browser in the OLPC is built upon Gecko and  
is able to run gnash.

The german "No software patent" / FLOSS propaganda-guys didn't knew  
about gnash either. However I enlightened them and told them to advise  
the use of it.

The weather was so terrible I couldn't wear a certain t-shirt and the  
OpenBSD guys was lost in their own scope on talking about BSD-/GPL- 
licensing issues rather than showing any interest in gnash (sorry  
Deanna ;)).

What interested me was that approx. 40% of the participants were using  
Mac/OS X. However my spare-time to fix the OS X building and  
implementing the Aqua-GUI  afterwards went straight to hell, because I  
had to move twice within 5 days.

Well, I'm glad to be back in my own apartment and working 10-12h/day  
since this monday + the extra 4 days of traveling in business a  
month... Or am I? :-/  To get to the point: When things are sorted out  
in the project I manage (aka the-crash-and-burn-out-project, not  
kidding), I'll cut some slack (which includes hacking on gnash ofc).

After all this is a zero-sum game and Adobe is on the down hill... Let  
2008 be the year we make the big breakthrough.

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