From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 7 17:26:38 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 249B816A41F for ; Sat, 7 Jan 2006 17:26:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from algould@datawok.com) Received: from smtpauth02.mail.atl.earthlink.net (smtpauth02.mail.atl.earthlink.net [209.86.89.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 734AB43D48 for ; Sat, 7 Jan 2006 17:26:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from algould@datawok.com) Received: from [206.255.31.21] (helo=grokwell.org) by smtpauth02.mail.atl.earthlink.net with asmtp (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.34) id 1EvHps-0007aI-Ox for freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org; Sat, 07 Jan 2006 12:26:36 -0500 Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 11:26:37 -0600 From: "Andrew L. Gould" To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060107112637.6994440f@grokwell.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.13 (GTK+ 2.6.9; i386-portbld-freebsd6.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: ee791d459e3d6817d780f4a490ca69563f9fea00a6dd62bcb131febf4f09bdc0eb2a1559f078b564350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 206.255.31.21 Subject: Macromedia Flash for FreeBSD petition 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: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 17:26:38 -0000 I have read, and signed the online petition for Flash at: http://www.petitiononline.com/flash4me/petition.html I'm not sure that telling Macromedia that people will not switch to FreeBSD until FreeBSD has Flash will be very persuasive. Macromedia (probably) does not care about FreeBSD. They may care, however, that media created using Flash cannot reach a certain market. This devalues Flash to web developers. My comment in the petition is that I will not switch from FreeBSD simply for Flash. Andrew