From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 18 20:36:57 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: 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 72D5516A41F for ; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 20:36:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz (southernuniform.com [66.76.92.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FC7C43D6E for ; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 20:36:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [192.168.2.2] ([69.27.149.254]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.13.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k2IKZXut042917; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 14:35:54 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Message-ID: <441C6F0B.6080605@daleco.biz> Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 14:35:23 -0600 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20060127 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Charles A. Landemaine" References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Petition! Ask Macromedia for a native Flash Player! 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: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 20:36:57 -0000 Charles A. Landemaine wrote: >If we want FreeBSD/PC-BSD to thrive, we need more and more support from >the big guys. > >Having a native version of the Flash Player is necessary. But I think >it's not so hard to get this release from Macromedia, it just takes a >minute to fill out a feature request form: >http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform&product=17&6213=19 >;) > > >Together we are strong, if you would like to help, please ask >Macromedia to release a native FreeBSD Flash plugin. Then, spread the >word in BSD forums to ask people to do it too! > > >Please reply to this thread to have a rough idea how many people asked >Macromedia for this feature. > > >Thanks. > OK, done, if it helps, so much the better. FWIW, you can use a float, but it must be greater than 0.0 for "product version". Kinda thought that "0.0" might get a point across, but their bounds-checking doesn't allow it. KDK -- People in general do not willingly read if they have anything else to amuse them. -- S. Johnson