Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 11:45:12 +1000 From: Michael Vince <mv@thebeastie.org> To: Andrew Pantyukhin <infofarmer@gmail.com> Cc: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Flash Player on FreeBSD Message-ID: <443C5BA8.6020306@thebeastie.org> In-Reply-To: <cb5206420604111240x4152606cq181956e4363aa046@mail.gmail.com> References: <20060410184638.D2E8C37638@outbound.sentinare.net> <443AB4AC.9020507@averageadmins.com> <cb5206420604111240x4152606cq181956e4363aa046@mail.gmail.com>
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Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: >On 4/10/06, Jeff Cross <jeff.cross@averageadmins.com> wrote: > > >>I wonder what got Linux on board? >> >> > >Well, what do you think? Do you think Microsoft paid Macromedia >to include the player in Win98 or do you think Macromedia paid >through the nose to get there? > >I think much effort should be spent to make hardware companies >open specs. The open source world should make it clear that it is >only to their benefit. Legislature should be encouraged. As for >software technologies like flash - I think they are great. And while >I might even donate a few bucks for them to be available in >FreeBSD, but I really think that time should better be spent trying >to develop SVG and such so we can forget about the proprietary >hell we're stumbling upon every other day. >_______________________________________________ > > > Sounds like your expecting expecting Macromedia to open source their flash work, this is never going to happen while it makes them money. While I am sure Macromedia want to have flash player anywhere they can where its sure to return a profit for them I think your to far away in some ideal world to believe that Macromedia would spend maybe more then 50k a year to provide top notch flash support on FreeBSD when I am quite sure they would be thinking the actual amount of users will probably be around 5,000 who would use their FreeBSD pc as their most common multimedia enabled browser. I still think that a certain amount of money could be offered to Macromedia to port the linux version to FreeBSD even it was just a very occasional binary release, just having any binary module that is even not the latest would make a world of difference. This seems like a very realistic goal to me. As some companies who have created binary stuff for FreeBSD such as the Zend PHP encoder seem to work on a policy of doing a bit but not as much as they probably could, I am still using FreeBSD 4.x compat4 binary compatibility package so I can use the Zend PHP optimizer/encoder to encode PHP work on a FreeBSD 6 machine. Mike
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