Re: Wanted: Flash player for ....

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Andy Greenwood <greenwood.andy@gmail.com>
Date
12 Apr 2006 15:14:53
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Re: Wanted: Flash player for <browser_of_choice>....
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On 4/12/06, Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> wrote:
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> Ashley Moran wrote:
> > On Wednesday 12 April 2006 02:37, Eric Schuele wrote:
> >> Either way... I hope somehow they see fit to loosen the language a bit
> >> in the future.
> >
> > Can't we petition Adobe somehow? I'm a bit stuck now - my company's
> main
> > application is written in Flash!
> >
> Petition? How about we sue them? How can a vendor dictate what
> platform they allow their software to run on? Just because they
> designed it for some other OS doesn't mean, if I can figure out a way to
> make it work, that they can tell me I can't run it on that platform.


With the Current EULA, that's exactly what they CAN do


I'm not a lawyer either, but frankly I think their EULA is unenforceable
> and their attitude ought to cost them customers.


I'll agree with you here. Hopefully they'll see the light and change the
EULA.

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> Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu)
> Adjunct Information Security Officer
> The University of Texas at Dallas
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