Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 04:32:22 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Matt Olander <matt@iXsystems.com> Cc: advocacy@freebsd.org, www@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD + Adobe Flash News Item Message-ID: <20070419013222.GA38826@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <46264071.3040505@iXsystems.com> References: <46264071.3040505@iXsystems.com>
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On 2007-04-18 08:59, Matt Olander <matt@iXsystems.com> wrote: > 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! Posted ... http://keramida.wordpress.com/2007/04/19/flash-support-for-bsd-step-1/ Many thanks to iXsystems for getting this going :-) - Giorgos
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