From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 22 15:11:03 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 B997216A4DD for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 15:11:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from shannon@widomaker.com) Received: from wilma.widomaker.com (wilma.widomaker.com [204.17.220.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2DDE43D5C for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 15:10:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from shannon@widomaker.com) Received: from [69.72.99.188] (helo=escape.goid.lan) by wilma.widomaker.com with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 1GFXu5-000Ijd-00 for freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 11:10:58 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.10] (IDENT:1000@daydream.goid.lan [192.168.1.10]) by escape.goid.lan (8.11.6p3/8.11.6) with ESMTP id k7MF94j26702 for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 11:09:04 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <44EB1E10.8060305@widomaker.com> Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 11:09:04 -0400 From: Charles Shannon Hendrix User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org References: <20060820180109.23C422395F@outbound.sentinare.net> <20060820154624.51391ddf@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20060820154624.51391ddf@localhost> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Ask for FreeBSD support here! Let's join forces! 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: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 15:11:03 -0000 Mark Kane wrote: > On Sun, Aug 20, 2006, at 16:25:21 -0300, Charles A. Landemaine wrote: >> On 8/20/06, Don Witt wrote: >>> The next release of Adobe flash developer will have a revised >>> license which will include FreeBSD. This was per the product >>> manager. >> License is not the most important. What is important for the end user >> is having a native version of his own operating system :) > > I read this last month: > > http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2006/07/api_review.html > > The using ALSA for sound in version 9 doesn't sound very good for > getting it to work on FreeBSD even if/when the license allows it. I > don't understand why it's so hard for them to make it compatible with > more OSes. They are in the business of selling software to create > content in their proprietary Flash format, but if that can't be viewed > on every common OS, then I think/know developers will not develop > exclusively in Flash as much. If only we could be so lucky. Personally, I think flash sites *SUCK* and would rather people didn't use it, especially if usage of the site depends on it. It's usually ugly, it means yet more junk hiding the information I want, and it puts a heavy load on my client machine. Save for about 99% of JavaScript that I see. It's usually doing something stupid, it adds useless stuff, and often puts a heavy load on my client machine.