[Gnash-dev] Gnash appears on Adobe's web site!

[John Gilmore]

Adobe has a facetious campaign about how "open" they are, now that
Apple has used its own iron fist to lock out Adobe products from the
iPhone/iPad universe.  Anybody who really knows anything about Adobe
history knows it's a crock of shit -- Adobe only opens when the world
forces them to -- but it's there to fool the rubes.  Anyway, as part
of this campaign, they have publicly admitted that Gnash exists, here:

  http://www.adobe.com/choice/flash.html

They think the existence of Gnash helps to claim that Flash is open,
despite all the years of never publishing specs, and using EULA
anti-reverse-engineering threats.  Then after the open community
reverse engineered it, came the years of Adobe publishing bogus specs
that didn't actually work, and which came with a EULA of their own
that said you could use the specs for any purpose except to build a
competing implementation (which they now claim "Anyone can use without
requiring permission from Adobe"!).  Not to mention all the patent and
codec wars.

Anyway, they end by namechecking "haXe; open source runtimes such as
Gnash; and open source video servers such as Red5."

It's really funny that when the big bully Apple comes after them, they
go running to the free software community for protection.  Maybe
Dmitry Sklyarov can help 'em.  I hear his company has some lawyers who
know how to win cases against big bully companies.

        John