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Subject: Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors
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Wojciech Puchar writes:

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

	Except Flash support depends (/inter alia/) on the Linux
emulation layer, which has been accepted as part of the "FreeBSD 
developers" job.  Indeed, I get the feeling Flash is sort of a quiet
proxy for the general health of a number of less well known but
nonetheless useful bits and pieces.



				Robert Huff