The Return of GPLFlash

ValourX writes "Remember GPLFlash, the free software project that was supposed to replace the proprietary Macromedia Flash plugin? Well it's back in active development according to this NewsForge article. GPLFlash is half of the proprietary duo that the Free Software Foundation is rallying to replace with free equivalents. The alpha release isn't far away, but the development team could use some programming help, if you're available."

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Problem.

[Sheepdot]

The alpha release isn't far away, but the development team could use some programming help, if you're available.

I would think that they are having problems getting programming support mainly because there are not enough people that see the flash engine as such a travesty to be closed source when it is given out for free, anyway. Same goes for Java.

The only problem with replacing free beer with free speech is that if you have the beer, you're more likely to slur the speech or forget about it altogether.

There is not enough incentive for this project to flourish.

Re:Problem.

[MenTaLguY]

The SVG specification does include animation actually, and at least Opera and the Adobe SVG plugin do implement it.

Just isn't much out there in the way of authoring tools that support SVG animation yet.