Fedora Desktop future- RedHat moves

[max bianco]

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com> wrote:
> max bianco wrote:
>
> > Adobe Flash is something I can't for the life of me figure out why
> > anyone would use. You can't kill the adds like you can with gnash and
> > it leaves a gaping security hole in everything it touches.
> >
> >
> Because it is the closest thing we have to a universal video format. Pure
> and simple, if I want to put out something like a "How to assemble" or a
> video of a meeting, I could do wmv for the MS folk, and ogg for the Linux
> folk, and {can't remember} for the Mac folk (I have a script for ffmpeg), or
> I can do flash and everyone can use it.
>
> If you want to communicate with others, and view their communication with
> you, flash is the format to use.
>
> If you never communicate with the outside world, it's optional.
>
Wouldn't it make sense for a universal video format to open?