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Subject: Re: Writing Flash Driver
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icantthinkofone wrote:
> My naive question is, what is involved with creating an open source 
> driver for flash for freebsd?  Is it a legal issue?  Or does it take 
> more time than anyone has to give?  Or is it just too difficult to do 
> without help from Adobe?

http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/

It can even play youtube.