From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 18 16:25:01 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: advocacy@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8212A16A401; Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:25:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matt@ixsystems.com) Received: from mail.iXsystems.com (newknight.ixsystems.net [206.40.55.70]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64A6613C48A; Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:25:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matt@ixsystems.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.iXsystems.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B9F3BD4A; Wed, 18 Apr 2007 09:59:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.iXsystems.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.ixsystems.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 95338-01; Wed, 18 Apr 2007 09:59:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.174] (drawbridge.ixsystems.net [206.40.55.65]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.iXsystems.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD2DCBE65; Wed, 18 Apr 2007 09:59:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <46264071.3040505@iXsystems.com> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 08:59:45 -0700 From: Matt Olander User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Macintosh/20070221) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: www@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard Cc: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: BSD + Adobe Flash News Item X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:25:01 -0000 While Adobe hasn't agreed to port Flash to FreeBSD (yet!), they have agreed to re-distribution of the Flash player. I obtained 2 separate re-distribution agreements, one for PC-BSD and one for the FreeBSD Foundation. The lead Flash Product Manager at Adobe, Emmy Huang, who is also a strong open source advocate, was a great help to me getting this far and she will be blogging about this shortly. In the meantime, here's the very simple press release for PC-BSD/Flash: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/04/prweb519843.htm I won't give up on a native port, but I'm not holding my breathe either. Hopefully, now that we've got the right contacts at Adobe, it will be easier to pursue the port. The more people that can pick this news up in their blogs, the better. Also, if someone can post it to the News section of the FreeBSD site, great! -matt -- Matt Olander CTO, iXsystems - "Servers for Open Source" http://www.iXsystems.com Public Relations, The FreeBSD Project http://www.FreeBSD.org BSD on the Desktop! http://www.pcbsd.org Phone: (408)943-4100 ext. 113 Fax: (408)943-4101 --