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Gnash
Gnash
Posted Aug 30, 2006 10:37 UTC (Wed) by rqosa (guest, #24136)In reply to: Gnash by khim
Parent article: Interview with Mike Melanson, lead engineer on the Linux Flash Player team (ZDNet)
However, the OpenOffice.org and KOffice projects have made ODF their preferred format and have been promoting ODF extensively. As a result, ODF is gaining adoption. By comparison, the FSF lists Gnash as a "high priority project", and (as far as I know) hasn't been promoting SMIL or other similar formats at all.
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Yes, but ...
Posted Aug 31, 2006 5:39 UTC (Thu) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link]
If OpenOffice didn't do an excellent job of reading Microsoft formats far fewer people would be interested, since most of us have colleagues who live in that world.Similarly, while Flash has its problems, it has a vast number of users.