On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 11:37 +0000, Dave Crossland wrote:

Hi All,

Thought this might be of interest to this list :-)

Yes, I apologize for cross-list posting, but this is pretty huge news for Inkscape and others...

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Alex Hudson <home@...1553...> Date: 07-Nov-2006 09:33 Subject: [Fsfe-uk] Adobe make Flash scripting Free Software with Mozilla Foundation To: discussion@...1554... Cc: fsfe-uk@...570...

I'm not sure if people will have seen this with all the other noise about Novell etc.:

    http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/press/mozilla-2006-11-07.html
    http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tamarin/faq.html

The scripting engine of Flash (which, from what I've been told, is very much like Javascript anyway) has been donated to Mozilla, and will be part of their future JS implementation (I gather).

In other Adobe news, people may have seen that they're building on other free software like WebKit:

    http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Apollo

    (RIA's == "Rich Internet Applications", FYI)

.. and Microsoft's XML Paper Specification seems to have scared them into doing:

    http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Mars

While Adobe haven't been terribly free software friendly in many ways in the past, it does seem like now is an opportune time to talk to them: they may be becoming more receptive to the needs of the free software community.

Cheers,

Alex.

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