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Date:      Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:22:47 -0600
From:      Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com>
To:        freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Lack of Flash support is no longer acceptable. Bountyestablished...
Message-ID:  <20080712062247.GA95947@kokopelli.hydra>
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On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 03:03:33PM +0400, Nico Revin wrote:
> There's Petition to Adobe
> http://www.petitiononline.com/flash4me/petition.html. According to it
> there are already 6350 signatures. But it dates back to those times
> when adobe and macromedia were apart!!!
> If we unite our efforts, connect ALL *BSD users, including pc-bsd,
> desktop-bsd, openbsd and so forth, and restart this petition,  we will
> take more signatures. we can make IT-people talk about it.
>=20
> we can start not a petition but a Fundraising Campaign to buy porting
> Adobe Flash: $10 x 6350 is a good argument for porting, isn't it?
>=20
> aggressive campaign will gain its results anyway.

Maybe we can get more than $10 each, and more than 6350 people -- and
come up with enough money to get Adobe to release a Flash player under
the BSD license.

If we're going to pay 'em to get our business, we might as well go for
the gold.

--=20
Chad Perrin [ content licensed PDL: http://pdl.apotheon.org ]
Paul Graham: "Real ugliness is not harsh-looking syntax, but having to
build programs out of the wrong concepts."

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