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Flash and Open Source
Anders Schneiderman asks: "I'm involved in a project that's planning to create open source toys for educating people around complicated policy questions (e.g., policy on prescription drugs). We'd really like to use Flash as our main language, but we're concerned about the fact that the major Flash development tools cost $500--more than some of the community group folks we want to involve can afford. I took a look at Sourceforge, and while there are plenty of projects that offer ways to create Flash for free, there didn't seem to be any v.1 general development tools. Did I miss something? If you want to build Flash and you don't want to pay $500, how do you do it (aside from copying somebody else's, which as Bill Gates told us is just bad, bad, bad)? And if there aren't any powerful open source tools for it, any thoughts on why?"
I'm rather curious seeing as how i work in a MS flash desing firm.
dmarien
Yayyy
I gotz da skills to pay da billz.
frost spit
AFAIK there is no decent "free" general purpose development environment for flash.
Yay!
Does it incrase the post's chance to be accepted if you bash Bill Gates?
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Of course it does. This is
Any post on slashduh that bashes bill gates or Micro$oft is instantly guaranteed success.
shortening in a flash\ b\b\b\b etc. etc.
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geez, guess you haven't been here long
bash microsoft = +1 mod
bash gates directly = +2 mod
get with the program =p-
Wat to go, that's 2 first-wide-posts. Going for the hat-trick?
i live in indonesia, this is the land of software piracy. you could buy flash,dreamweaver,fireworks etc for just 10000 rupiahs (a lousy 1 american dollar) but theres no one selling pirated linux distro here.(who`d want to buy them anyway, when i could download them for free) ;p
i`ve never realized that the software im using cost $500 (5 million rupiah) jeezzfuk!!!!
my other machine runs a winXP (installed from `microsoft combo` CD - with wind95,98,XPpro,office,project in one cd). i wonder how much does it realy cost...
come to indo guys!!! its heaven here
yay..
You use mozilla and linux and accuse something else of being unstable?
bwahahahahaha!!!!
Anyhow, the flash spec is fully defined. Write your own flash viewer or shut up.
(Score -1: tell it like it is)
what the hell does that make you?
from what i see, security is outta discussion here.
or did i miss something?
I better get back to earth
a whiner... like you!
Slashdot bores me [techno-ronin.com]
Then go away, you pedantic bitch
you could not have chosen a more annoying and blatently terrible, yet perfect, example of why flash should just die. I dont even care about open source. That site is blatently annoying, and had i been on my 56k @ home instead of cable here at work, it would have taken 10 minutes to load. Crap, crap, crap. C-R-A-P.