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Subject: Re: Lack of Flash support is no longer acceptable. Bounty
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On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 08:41 -0700, John Kozubik wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, Scott T. Hildreth wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 08:39 +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> > > Quoting John Kozubik <john@kozubik.com> (from Thu, 19 Jun 2008
> > > 14:38:11 -0700 (PDT)):
> > >
> > > > First, a bounty has been posted here:
> > > >
> > > > http://blog.kozubik.com/john_kozubik/2007/12/bounty-posted-f.html
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >   Maybe the bounty would be better spent here,
> >
> > This was from an email on the gnome list from Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org>
> >
> > "As to the point about Flash, Kris also mentioned that he has the ear of
> >  someone at Adobe who was hinting that a capable developer willing to
> >  sign an NDA could be given code to work on a native Flash plug-in port.
> >  This could bode well for PC-BSD and FreeBSD should someone step up to
> >  do this work."
> 
> 
> Perfect.  This is exactly what the bounty:
> 
> http://blog.kozubik.com/john_kozubik/2007/12/bounty-posted-f.html
> 
> is for.  I suggest that if you think this is important (as I do) to post a
> commitment to the bounty, and presumably someone will step forward to
> speak with Kris, sign an NDA, and get the FreeBSD desktop back to a
> reasonable level of utility.

I wonder how much of a task it would be?  Does anyone have any idea what
language the clients are written in?