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Date:      Sun, 8 Jun 2008 15:15:27 +0200 (CEST)
From:      "dick hoogendijk" <dick@nagual.nl>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Flashplugin
Message-ID:  <39310.192.168.11.31.1212930927.squirrel@nagual.nl>

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On Sat, 7 Jun 2008 22:16:34 -0400
Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 12:03:50AM +0200, Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 7 Jun 2008 15:33:26 -0500
> > "Sam Fourman Jr." <sfourman@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > use Firefox for Windows and use wine, then install the windows Flash
9 plugin
> >
> > People choosing FreeBSD shouldn't be "forced" to run windowish
solution. The OS is not supported. That's a major problem in these
modern times, although lots of fbsd people tend to say it is not.
That's not everyday's live however. FreeBSD does not make the web.
>
> OK.   So get busy anc contribute a flash9 plugin that works in
> FreeBSD. See if you can get the necessary information out of Adobe.

As Tobias Hoelrich stated:

That's simply wrong. The Flash format byte-code is *not* proprietary. If
you want to, you can go ahead and create your own Flash Player. The
specifications for the format are freely available at:
http://www.adobe.com/openscreenproject/developers/

So, the infromation -is- there.

-- 
Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE
++ http://nagual.nl/ | SunOS 10u5 05/08 ++




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