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Cc: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>, Michel Talon <talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr>,
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Subject: Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors
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>> thousands of unix software that runs on unices including FreeBSD?
>
> I don't see the difference.  If a program runs on FreeBSD it runs on
> FreeBSD, so it _is_ something that FreeBSD users may be interested in
> for their every day work.  Does it really matter if the particular piece
> of software also runs on AmigaOS?  Not really, IMO :)

do you ask say - microsoft - about supporting program that doesn't run 
under windows, but runs under - say - MacOS.

no.

so stop asking on FreeBSD group about flash support. it's not FreeBSD 
developers job.