Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 15:28:02 -0700 From: "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> To: "Mark Kane" <mark@mkproductions.org> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org, "Charles A. Landemaine" <landemaine@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Ask for FreeBSD support here! Let's join forces! Message-ID: <ef10de9a0608201528h30da540dvd4d13de8093c930f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060820154624.51391ddf@localhost> References: <e6575a30608192022u44812b59pe6c22314a1ee7b80@mail.gmail.com> <20060820180109.23C422395F@outbound.sentinare.net> <e6575a30608201225r83cc728je1475493525febc1@mail.gmail.com> <20060820154624.51391ddf@localhost>
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On 8/20/06, Mark Kane <mark@mkproductions.org> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 20, 2006, at 16:25:21 -0300, Charles A. Landemaine wrote: > > On 8/20/06, Don Witt <witt@cylogistics.com> wrote: > > > The next release of Adobe flash developer will have a revised > > > license which will include FreeBSD. This was per the product > > > manager. > > > > License is not the most important. What is important for the end user > > is having a native version of his own operating system :) > > I read this last month: > > http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2006/07/api_review.html > > The using ALSA for sound in version 9 doesn't sound very good for > getting it to work on FreeBSD even if/when the license allows it. I > don't understand why it's so hard for them to make it compatible with > more OSes. They are in the business of selling software to create > content in their proprietary Flash format, but if that can't be viewed > on every common OS, then I think/know developers will not develop > exclusively in Flash as much. Granted up to date Flash support is > available for Windows and the majority of computer users, but I do know > some developers who want their websites to be viewable for everyone, and > therefore have chosen not to develop in Flash. On the other hand, lots > of big sites use all Flash for their designs (and some 8+ so we can't > view them at all), so maybe the designers who do care about full > compatibility and wouldn't buy their products or develop in Flash don't > matter as much since Adobe already has tons of business and doesn't > have much financial incentive to make it more compatible. > > However, Adobe is already doing major work on Flash 9 for Linux, so I > don't understand why at the same time they couldn't put a little effort > into making it compatible with the most operating systems possible so > the most people can view the content created with their tools. If they > want Flash to be a web standard, then they should care about supporting > every common OS...and from reading the blog posts/comments and never > receiving a helpful response from them about it, unfortunately they > don't seem to want to invest the time to do it right from the beginning > of a major rewrite like this. > > The petition has increased by over 1,000 signatures since I signed it > which is good. I hope people continue to sign it and contact Adobe > about Flash for FreeBSD. :) > What petition, my petition here?: http://www.petitiononline.com/flash4me/petition.html Anyways.. I posted a comment on that blog, I think I wrote "I speak on behalf of 2276+ people... We want a native Flash player for FreeBSD!" with a link to the petition at the bottom... It doesn't show up on the site yet though. -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/
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