Thread: Adobe Flash Player 10: When will the update arrive? Is it coming at all?
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attila77 is offline attila77
2010-12-21 , 11:15
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Originally Posted by geohsia View Post
I thought he was trying to answer the previous question but I guess he was just making a statement. We already knew that it would have to be Adobe or Nokia that would make it available.

The question asked was how likely it would be for Adobe / Nokia to do that for the N900 platform.
No, the question was specifically about MeeGo 1.2. See below.

Originally Posted by droitwichgas View Post
It was my understanding there was no offiical annoucement from Nokia regarding Flash, nor for that matter Ovi maps, on meego/Nokia N900? How can you be so sure that we will never get Flash on meego?
MeeGo is an Open Source Linux Foundation project. It will (and should) not contain any blobs and parts that would hinder it's distribution. So no Skype, no Ovi Maps, no Shazam, no TomorrowsCoolApp. BUT. Understand. That is the free edition of the OS. Debian, if you will. Not what you have on actual products *VENDORS* will include Flash in *THEIR* products that might be running a certain OS *or* Adobe might make it available for those OSes through variou$ licen$ing deal$.

Think about it this way. Does Windows come with Flash ? Does Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora come with Flash ? Does MacOS come with Flash ? MeeGo (1.2, 1.3, 3.4, 8.9, etc) will not come in that sense with Flash either. If you nab a Flash build from a vendor, you might make it work, depending on how close it is to your hardware/middleware, but that will always be a gray area (as you still would not be able to distribute it - with the potential goodwill that if Nokia is that vendor it is less likely to cease & desist and try to cooperate than others).
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