Subject: Re: Flash for *BSD Petition
To: None <netbsd-advocacy@netbsd.org, netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Konrad Neuwirth <konrad@mailathome.or.at>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 08/18/2004 12:02:52
Ben Collver <collver@peak.org> writes:

> On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 09:42:28AM -0700, Andy Ruhl wrote:
> > On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 09:32:39 -0700, Ben Collver <collver@peak.org> wrote:
> > > Okay, but I'd like people to develop for open standards such as SVG.
> > 
> I wouldn't suggest that it would hurt to port it to BSD.  However, I
> was being asked to advocate a proprietary standard, and happened to
> mention a similar standard that is both open and portable.

It's open and portable, but not similar.  SVG is a vector graphics
format, Flash is an application environment that just happens to be
largely used for animations, but that can also natively interface with
SQL databases. 

Konrad