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Flash and Open Source

Posted by timothy on from the looming-courthouse-perhaps dept.

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?"

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  1. Flashing open sores? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You want to flash open sores? YUK!

  2. Flash... by Em+Emalb · · Score: -1, Troll

    ...sucks. Please do your site visitors a favor and don't use it.

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  3. let's think here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    maybe because flash sucks an open faced asshole?

  4. Re:DON'T DO IT! by the_2nd_coming · · Score: 2, Troll

    dude
    you can use flash to develope powerful clientside applications that load faster and look nice than Java and there is no need for serverside crap so no reloading the webpage.

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  5. Re:Nothing Found by the_2nd_coming · · Score: 0, Troll

    and you are still using flash. the parent was saing you could get flash features by just using PHP. youhave just shown me that PHP still needs flash.

    PHP is good for loading pages that are diffrent for each user, but it is not good for taking live data and spitting out an answer in the same page with out a reload.

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  6. read that title wrong by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    At first I thought you wanted flash and open sores

  7. Re:DON'T DO IT! by neal+n+bob · · Score: -1, Troll

    you're a dick.

    plz shove a can of frozen oj up your ass. thx!

  8. Ok Ok, I made a mistake...... by jsimon12 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Please drop the thread guys, I was wrong, flash isn't Lingo, I am sorry. My bad, Flash still is crap though.

  9. You people are morons. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    A. Flash can be embedded in a normal html page - if you don't think Google crawls Flash you are out to lunch.

    B. Flash MX is leaps and bounds ahead of 5 and offers great database connectivity options.

    C. Flash speeds up development. (Could it be that all you L33T coders have your panties in a bunch because you can't see beyond raw code. Or are you mad that Graphic Designers will be taking work away from you little babies? Boohoo. Learn a little.

    D. If you are too cheap to pay only $500 for this app you don't deserve to interact with the Flash userbase. I never thought I'd say this but open-source is a leech. Fuck you.