From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 7 18:16:51 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 6957E16A420 for ; Sat, 7 Jan 2006 18:16:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ac@miensk.com) Received: from server.nsurl.com (nsurl.com [69.50.196.120]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B58843D72 for ; Sat, 7 Jan 2006 18:16:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ac@miensk.com) Received: from [195.50.4.174] (helo=[192.168.100.15]) by server.nsurl.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.52) id 1EvIcL-0005m2-Ov for freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org; Sat, 07 Jan 2006 11:16:42 -0700 Message-ID: <43C01044.5080600@miensk.com> Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 21:02:28 +0200 From: ac User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 MultiZilla/1.6.4.0b X-Accept-Language: be, en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org References: <200601071802.SAA09949@sopwith.solgatos.com> In-Reply-To: <200601071802.SAA09949@sopwith.solgatos.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - server.nsurl.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - miensk.com X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Subject: Re: petition for native Flash player 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 18:16:51 -0000 Dieter wrote: >A binary release, while useful to some, would only be useful for one platform. >And would have to be installed in a chroot jail for security reasons. >FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD and Linux run on many hardware platforms. Thus the only >reasonable solution is a reader/player in source code. Until then, many people, >myself included, will not use flash. > To say frankly, those people (including you and even plus me) are not so numerous. We're still in the world where Windows dominates. So the following statement doesn't seem to be right: >Webs sites that are flash only will lose >customers, and flash will not be as successful as it could be. > >