Adobe's Flash developers need to learn from Saudi Arabia

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Mar 24, 2007 2:48 AM EDT
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The biggest video problem open source developers need to solve isn't with video editing software, but with Internet video delivery, which is currently dominated by Adobe Flash. There are several good reasons why Flash is the most popular method of putting video on the Internet, but Macromedia (since purchased by Adobe) made a horrible decision when it released Flash 8. Its choice of a proprietary video compression codec makes a free replacement for Flash not only desirable, but necessary -- and I mean for business reasons, not just because of software ideology.

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Yes, yes, and more yes. dinotrac 3 960 Mar 24, 2007 6:17 PM

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