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Adobe EULA

Posted Apr 29, 2007 15:58 UTC (Sun) by martinwguy (guest, #44989)
In reply to: Adobe EULA by kevinbsmith
Parent article: Two approaches to Flash

Hi!
I'm a Gnash developer, and we have taken professional legal advice on this issue. It turns out that the Macromedia/Adobe EULA is illegal in the EU and unenforcable in the US.
However even a lawsuit that is doomed to fail would still cost a developer lot of time, distraction, expense and patience, so we prefer to play it safe.
In practice there are plenty of people who are not programmers or reverse engineers, who are happy to run test movies for us and send us screenshots of what the output should look like.

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Make an easy trial install box

Posted Oct 27, 2015 20:19 UTC (Tue) by janiceh (guest, #105068) [Link]

Demos like Wubi are bringing many disenchanted MS Windows desktop users over to GNU/Linux, because Wubi installs are so simple to try. I suggest using this same concept. Let users decide between two-click trial installs or regular installs of Free swfdec, Free gnash, the evil proprietary Adobe Flash, or none. Make a box "Choose How to Display Videos" that distributors can set up to load onto a freshly installed desktop. Click on the box and the window expands with the options and information. If the user clicks on Try Gnash, it and any dependent software that is not already installed is temporarily loaded. At the end of the test, the user can use the same box to either install or try another method. If it is too difficult due to having to deal with various software dependencies, most people are just going to continue to use Adobe Flash without giving freedomized open software a try.