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[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2006-08-20 15:46, Mark Kane <mark at mkproductions.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 20, 2006, at 16:25:21 -0300, Charles A. Landemaine wrote:
> > On 8/20/06, Don Witt <witt at cylogistics.com> 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 :)

Agreed.

> 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.

I'm probably stating the blatantly obvious, but the trick is how we can
convince them that FreeBSD is a "common OS", I guess :)