Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 05:32:48 -0600 From: Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=F6vesd=E1n_G=E1bor?= <gabor.kovesdan@t-hosting.hu>, freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org, speedydemon@shadowdev.org, Frank Laszlo <laszlof@vonostingroup.com> Subject: Flash Petition (Was Re: FreeBSD as a Desktop Article) Message-ID: <ef10de9a0601090332l3093fbe3j8a6234aeb74e6d59@mail.gmail.com>
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On 1/8/06, Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@hub.org> wrote: > On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: > > > On 1/5/06, Frank Laszlo <laszlof@vonostingroup.com> wrote: > >> > >> > >> K=F6vesd=E1n G=E1bor wrote: > >>> Nikolas Britton wrote: > >>> > >>>> On 1/4/06, James Cornell <speedydemon@shadowdev.org> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> never mind, I just made one so go sign it!!! > >>>> http://www.petitiononline.com/flash4me/petition.html > >>>> > >>>> > >>> I've signed it and posted it to a Hungarian open-source community, bu= t > >>> I think it would be nice if somebody from the doc team can add it to > >>> the news on the website, so I cc'd freebsd-doc@, I hope this helps > >>> geting Adobe to release a working Flash for FreeBSD. > >>> > >>> Regards, > >>> > >>> Gabor Kovesdan > >> > >> Not to rain on the parade, but since when has one of those online > >> petitions done any good? > >> > > > > It may be trivial but at least I did something to rectify it. Talking > > about are problems will get us nowhere unless we also do. Do you have > > a better plan of action? > > The problem is, anyone can sign a petition, even those that don't, nor > will ever, use the software, which is what makes them meaningless :( > > You really need to get someone on the inside that is using FreeBSD and > push from that direction ... unless its a product you can pay for, and > then you make the dollars speak for you ... I make all IT, purchasing, decisions at my company. I suspect most other senior IT folk also make or have strong influence in, purchasing, decisions at their company's. What are the demographics for people who use FreeBSD? I suspect a higher then normal percentage of senior IT folk make up the ranks. Here's an excellent example of the point I'm trying to make: Last year my company wanted to build a flash website. I put my foot down and said no, not everyone can use or see flash websites. Macromedia lost a $999 dollar sale. > > What about the FreeBSD Foundation ... maybe something that they can > organize? I'm all for that and other organisations getting involved, maybe they can actually do something too.
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