ZDNet: Interview with Rob Savoye of Gnash, the GPL Flash project | Linux Today

ZDNet: Interview with Rob Savoye of Gnash, the GPL Flash project

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 19, 2006

“With Sun’s recent announcement that they are planning on
freeing Java under the GPL and Adobe’s decision to open source the
Actionscript Virtual Machine, I thought it would be good to take a
look at other open source Rich Internet Application solutions. One
of the most famous is Gnash, a GNU Flash movie player. I talked
with Rob Savoye, the lead developer on the project, about what
Gnash is and what the goals for this implementation for open source
Flash are. If you are interested in trying it out, you can download
Gnash here, and Rob said a new release is expected very
soon…”

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