Gnash Project

Here is for you guys, especially for Rob I think.

The bar was nicely placed in the 20th district of Paris, nice and cute staff... I strongly recommend the drink called 'Grenoble'.

Someone was kind enough to package gnash and make it run on the PS3: http://blogs.ydl.net/billdar/2007/09/12/flash-for-ydl-using-gnash/

Rob Savoye wrote:

"The forth alpha release of Gnash has just been made at version
0.8.1. Gnash is a GPL'd Flash movie player and browser plugin for
Firefox, Mozilla, Konqueror, and Opera. Gnash supports many SWF v7 features and ActionScript2 classes. Gnash also runs on many GNU/Linux distributions, embedded GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, non x86 processors, and 64 bit architectures. Ports to Darwin and Windows are in progress for a future release. The plugin works best with Firefox 1.0.4 or newer, and should work in any Mozilla based browser. There is also a standalone player for GNOME or KDE based desktops.

During this week, some one ported gnash to yet another OS, namely 'Syllable'.

Here is a picture of gnash running under Syllable:

Nah, it's just me doing a coincidental look-alike.

Gnash has now switched to the GPLv3 license, see http://gplv3.fsf.org for more info.

Today I met Richard Stallman himself and a representative from FSF Europe, before he was giving a speech. To be honest Stallman had a though crowd during his speech on Copyright. Great guy, great mind, great logic. Really interesting and encouraging although some of the crowd seemed not to get his harsh criticism of the big companies and Digital Restriction Management. He also pointed out differences between Free Software (Free as in Freedom) and Open Source Software (Do you as me see a connection to Eric S. Raymond here? ;)).

Last night I added OGL support for OS X and fixed some build issues, now it's up 'n running albeit you must start X11 first.

Oh, gimme a home where the buffalo roam... Where the deer and the antelope play. Where seldom is heard a discouraging word. And the skies are not cloudy all day... or just a shot of Whiskey and Xanax would do just fine...

Eric S. Raymond once wrote: "Shut Up And Show Them The Code". But this is not getting us anywhere as long companies are able to force restrictions upon us, the end-users. Having this in mind I'd paraphrase him and write: "Shut up and GPL the code".

After all we'll beat down the closed-source community with this bat,
after all we own the hardware and therefore we must be able to know
what's running on top of it; After all the information will become free
as in freedom.