From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 20 20:46:26 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE7CC16A4DA for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 20:46:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mark@mkproductions.org) Received: from flpi102.sbcis.sbc.com (flpi102.sbcis.sbc.com [207.115.20.71]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57CBD43D49 for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 20:46:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mark@mkproductions.org) X-ORBL: [75.28.54.53] Received: from localhost (adsl-75-28-54-53.dsl.spfdmo.sbcglobal.net [75.28.54.53]) by flpi102.sbcis.sbc.com (8.13.7 out spool5000 dk/8.13.7) with ESMTP id k7KKkQRi014146; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 13:46:26 -0700 Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 15:46:24 -0500 From: Mark Kane To: "Charles A. Landemaine" Message-ID: <20060820154624.51391ddf@localhost> In-Reply-To: References: <20060820180109.23C422395F@outbound.sentinare.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.4.0cvs57 (GTK+ 2.8.20; x86_64-unknown-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ask for FreeBSD support here! Let's join forces! X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 20:46:26 -0000 On Sun, Aug 20, 2006, at 16:25:21 -0300, Charles A. Landemaine wrote: > On 8/20/06, Don Witt 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. :) -Mark -- Internet Radio: Party107 (Trance/Electronic) - http://www.party107.com Rock 101.9 The Edge (Rock) - http://www.rock1019.net IRC: MIXXnet IRC Network - irc.mixxnet.net (Nick: MIXX941) GnuPG Public Key: http://www.mkproductions.org/mk_pubkey.asc