Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 08:28:00 -0600 From: "Andrew L. Gould" <algould@datawok.com> To: Tim Greening-Jackson <timgreeningjackson@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Flash Petition (Was Re: FreeBSD as a Desktop Article) Message-ID: <20060111082800.3e9f1cac@grokwell.org> In-Reply-To: <43c50ec2.42cbe3f2.31ad.352e@mx.gmail.com> References: <20060109081209.114ce611@grokwell.org> <43c50ec2.42cbe3f2.31ad.352e@mx.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 13:57:28 -0000 Tim Greening-Jackson <timgreeningjackson@gmail.com> wrote: >=20 >=20 > > -----Original Message----- > > From: owner-freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- > > advocacy@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Andrew L. Gould > > Sent: 09 January 2006 14:12 > > To: Nikolas Britton > > Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org; speedydemon@shadowdev.org; bor; > > Frank Laszlo; K=F6vesd=E1n G=E1@FreeBSD.ORG > > Subject: Re: Flash Petition (Was Re: FreeBSD as a Desktop Article) > >=20 > > How about a campaign where every time a FreeBSD user comes across a > > Flash website, he/she sends the webmaster an email stating that we > > can't see their content because Flash is not available for > > FreeBSD? I wonder if we could generate a noticeable volume. >=20 > Well, I suppose if you wanted to be super-sneaky/smart, it's fairly > easy to write a web-crawler that would recurse its way through the > whole interweb thing noting those sites with flash and then > automatically mailing the webmaster. You could do it in about 10 > lines of Python (note I am NOT offering to do this - it's merely a > suggestion). >=20 Hmm...thanks for the suggestion; but no. I would like sincere consideration by Macromedia for a FreeBSD port of Flash. The least I can do is maintain my own sincerity/integrity. Andrew
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