Hi,
Uhm, not directly related, but I'm just throwing up ideas here.
Oh it is related, don't worry!
The mention of Flash reminds me of Moonlight (http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlight). If its something on open source, I thought it'd be more appropriate if we can present it with something that is open source as well. Of course this is assuming that Moonlight is ready. Let me state that I hardly know anything about it except from what I hear from the news and podcasts. Anyone has any updates/more info regarding it?
That isn't quite open source... that is Microsoft Silverlight, which is being developed by Microsoft to compete with Adobe. They do NOT open source it, and they don't really support moonlight, they just tolerate it. It is important to know that only the player(!) will be available on Linux, moonlight does not include all the tools, which will remain Microsoft-only. Adobe's Flex SDK - the Enterprise platform for Flash, Adobe Flash CS3 is the "animation oriented Flash design platform" - is available for Mac and for Linux as well, and the SDK is free (http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/downloads/). Also, Adobe contributed the Actionscript 3 engine to the Mozilla team (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tamarin/). Of course Adobe does that because it wants domination and not because they want to be nice, but I'd wager to say this is better than how Microsoft tries to dominate. While I really don't like Adobe all that much (but there products are quite good - most of them), I'm not sure I would like to support Microsoft by using Silverlight. That's politics - but also from a technology point of view it doesn't make any sense. Silverlight is Beta, Flash has been out there for many years. Almost no one has Silverlight. Almost everyone has Flash. Same with available developers. So for now, I won't consider Silverlight. Michael -- Email: mh@hasenstein.com Home: http://hasenstein.com/ Project: http://letexa.com/ Company: http://mbe-nuernberg.de/ Future company: http://euramer.com/ Моё терпение подходит концу! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org