JD on EP

John, the link to Tinic article seems to be incorrect, there are extra characters () at the end.

Fix it ;)

"Fix it ;)"

Yes sir, right away sir, please don't send me back to the reprogramming camps again, sir. ;-)

Thanks for the catch, Michael. Strange thing... I used the usual copy/paste from location bar, but there were 2-3 blank spaces on either side of the URL when I went to edit it. Sometimes the sexed quotes and true apostrophes in quoted material will make long spaces here (MT 3.16 system, Mac/Win editing), but I haven't seen that happen in an URL before. It was probably just a typing error on my part, simplest hypothesis. Anyway, thanks for the word. ;-)

Interesting. Reading Tinic's post, I was going to leave a comment there asking whether they had looked into using SDL (http://www.libsdl.org/) for the Linux player. Guess what, a few people already questioned that. The problem, according to Tinic, is that "SDL is not an option since it's released under LGPL. We can not link against anything which is released under GPL or LGPL. There nothing I can do about it as much as I'd like to, this is a very strict policy we have to follow"

At least from my understanding, it is legal to dynamically link to SDL in a closed-source implementation (see the link someone posted in Tinic's blog: http://www.libsdl.org/faq.php?action=listentries&category=8#6), so the question is why does Adobe/Macromedia have this strict policy in place?

Heck, if Adobe loosened their restriction, they could use SDL statically and even contribute back to the project.

I would be more hug Macromedia's virtual legs if they came out with a solid flash player update that fixed the problems that exist with flash in linux currently.

Please...let it be so...and lit it happen.

Thanks for keeping up with this as I have not found many resources getting this kind of news.

Mike.

"I would be more hug" = "I would hug"

I've been programming all day...nothing more to say for myself.

I guess I don't get the "lock down then port" philosophy when there's concurrent development for Windows and Mac platforms. I read Tinic's post and it just sounds odd that a company that size has that much trouble getting an expert to port to a well-known system like Linux when they've got people to port to the diverse embedded market. It sounds like Linux just isn't considered that important.