From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 24 18:17:30 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 057B116A4E0 for ; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 18:17:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from igloo.linux.gr (igloo.linux.gr [62.1.205.36]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 355F843D45 for ; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 18:17:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.pc (host5.bedc.ondsl.gr [62.103.39.229]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.13.7/8.13.7/Debian-2) with ESMTP id k7OIH5DG002517 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Thu, 24 Aug 2006 21:17:11 +0300 Received: from gothmog.pc (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.pc (8.13.7/8.13.7) with ESMTP id k7OIHFuX036755; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 21:17:15 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.pc (8.13.7/8.13.7/Submit) id k7OIHA0M036746; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 21:17:10 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 21:17:10 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Mark Kane Message-ID: <20060824181710.GA36711@gothmog.pc> References: <20060820180109.23C422395F@outbound.sentinare.net> <20060820154624.51391ddf@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060820154624.51391ddf@localhost> X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-2.477, required 5, autolearn=not spam, AWL -0.65, BAYES_00 -2.60, MANY_EXCLAMATIONS 0.78, UNPARSEABLE_RELAY 0.00) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr X-Spam-Status: No Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org, "Charles A. Landemaine" 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: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 18:17:30 -0000 On 2006-08-20 15:46, Mark Kane wrote: > 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 :) Agreed. > 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. I'm probably stating the blatantly obvious, but the trick is how we can convince them that FreeBSD is a "common OS", I guess :)