Sometimes I am a liberal, sometimes not.
When we talk about proprietary software, We use the best we can afford, conscientious software should be sold for free, in the benefit of human beings. But, let me point, there must be some huge difference between both.
Like pencils: You can borrow them, at the end, the better is the one made yours, that expensive one you bought, that one in your hand between your fingers fits and draws well, because you made it like that.
Returning to soft concepts: We used to be fans of formerly-Macromedia's
products and, in some dude way, we are still. Didn't mind spending money on something fun for us. Had not time either developing applications just for own use, so the best chance, if any, was to get a license. We borrowed the money, true.
Remember the soft was buggy on a Mac, disagree with some points of the license et al, but we finish buying our product. Sharing it on a single machine.
Gnash is a GNU Flash movie player, can run standalone to play flash movies. And also run as a plugin from within Firefox.
Gnash can play many current flash movies, supports an XML based message and uses OpenGL for rendering the graphics.
Based, like free software in other people's work : Works as is documented in the Flash Format spec.
Stealing apples from the supermarket and giving them to the poor. Like Robin Hood.
Sometimes I am a liberal, sometimes not.
