Interview with Mike Melanson, lead engineer on the Linux Flash Player team (ZDNet)

Ryan Stewart interviews Mike Melanson, the lead engineer on Adobe's Flash Player team, and one of the people behind the Linux Flash Player. "Can you give us a little bit of your background? How you got into Linux, how you came to be involved in the Linux Flash Player? I got into Linux when I wanted to use a free relational database called MySQL for a web project. I eventually went to Linux full time at home. Soon after, I realized I could not play Apple QuickTime movie trailers on Linux and wondered why. I started doing some homework and began contributing to, and occasionally leading, various multimedia-related open source projects and efforts, such as xine, FFmpeg, and MPlayer."

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