In case the statement will be made, consider to add that Gnash developers would be happy to offer consulting or development services to O'Reilly to plug this leak.

--strk;

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On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 09:00:10PM +0100, Markus Fischer wrote:

Safaribooks online were availabe in HTML-View for a long time and were accessible with free software.

Now the O'Reilly Safari team has decided to stop this and deliver online books in Adobe flash format only for online reading. As expected gnash does not work.

This means reading and browsing O'Reilly books online is no more possible with free software.

Looking at Tim O'Reilly's statement does not increase hope in this case:

http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/10/safari-books-online-60-a-cloud.html

I think FSFE and should make a very clear statement in this case as many sites are no more accessible for free software users these days.

-- Markus Fischer Luzern