From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 19 01:47:20 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: advocacy@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80E5A16A403 for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 01:47:20 +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 F077F13C4BA for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 01:47:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from kobe.laptop (host5.bedc.ondsl.gr [62.103.39.229]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id l3J1WiDo014750 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Thu, 19 Apr 2007 04:32:51 +0300 Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l3J1WNA8038962; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 04:32:35 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id l3J1WMtp038961; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 04:32:22 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 04:32:22 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Matt Olander Message-ID: <20070419013222.GA38826@kobe.laptop> References: <46264071.3040505@iXsystems.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46264071.3040505@iXsystems.com> X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-3.521, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.68, BAYES_00 -2.60, DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE 0.20) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr X-Spam-Status: No Cc: advocacy@freebsd.org, www@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD + Adobe Flash News Item 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, 19 Apr 2007 01:47:20 -0000 On 2007-04-18 08:59, Matt Olander wrote: > While Adobe hasn't agreed to port Flash to FreeBSD (yet!), they have > agreed to re-distribution of the Flash player. I obtained 2 separate > re-distribution agreements, one for PC-BSD and one for the FreeBSD > Foundation. > > The lead Flash Product Manager at Adobe, Emmy Huang, who is also a > strong open source advocate, was a great help to me getting this far and > she will be blogging about this shortly. > > In the meantime, here's the very simple press release for PC-BSD/Flash: > http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/04/prweb519843.htm > > I won't give up on a native port, but I'm not holding my breathe either. > Hopefully, now that we've got the right contacts at Adobe, it will be > easier to pursue the port. > > The more people that can pick this news up in their blogs, the better. > Also, if someone can post it to the News section of the FreeBSD site, great! Posted ... http://keramida.wordpress.com/2007/04/19/flash-support-for-bsd-step-1/ Many thanks to iXsystems for getting this going :-) - Giorgos