Flash Player on FreeBSD

[Don Witt]

I have some contacts at macromedia and would be happy to use them for this
effort.  Before anyone talks to them, they should not indicate that we will
pay.  Ask them to do it free first.  I have had many companies provide
work/porting for nothing.  

I would like to be involved in this effort as well.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-advocacy at freebsd.org 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-advocacy at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Cross
> Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 11:05 AM
> To: Michael Vince
> Cc: advocacy at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Flash Player on FreeBSD
> 
> Michael Vince wrote:
> > Michael Vince wrote:
> > 
> >> Jeff Cross wrote:
> >>
> >>> I have seen a number of e-mails lately about a petition 
> for having a 
> >>> native Flash Player for the FreeBSD operating system.  I have 
> >>> noticed that the flashplayer* plugin has been removed 
> from the ports 
> >>> tree and I understand why.  But, what needs to happen to allow 
> >>> FreeBSD users to use the Flash Player plugin?
> >>>
> >>> I just saw where Verizon and Adobe have come to an agreement to 
> >>> allow Verizon to put the Flash Player on their mobile phones.
> >>>
> >>> 
> http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/biztech/04/06/adobe.verizon.reut/index.
> >>> html?section=cnn_tech
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Would it be possible to approach Adobe about getting this kind of 
> >>> agreement for FreeBSD?  I mean, their EULA says the 
> software can't 
> >>> be used on the Windows XP Media Center operating system (unless I 
> >>> have misread this, please correct me if I'm wrong). There are a 
> >>> number of laptops coming out now with the Media Center OS 
> on them.  
> >>> Don't you think they run Flash Player on them?
> >>>
> >>> I'm not trying to kick a dead horse here.  Like I said earlier, I 
> >>> know this has been discussed time and time again.  But, I 
> thoroughly 
> >>> enjoy using FreeBSD.  I rarely boot in to Windows any 
> more.  As much 
> >>> as I hate to admit it, it just feels natural to visit a Flash 
> >>> enabled web site and have it work on FreeBSD.  Even 
> though I don't 
> >>> visit that many (on purpose anyway), when I do I like to 
> see what I 
> >>> visited the site to see, even if that happens to be Flash 
> enabled content.
> >>>
> >>> I'm sure I'm not as smart as most of you guys, and don't claim to 
> >>> be, but I am willing to help!
> >>>
> >>> Jeff Cross
> >>> www.averageadmins.com
> >>> _______________________________________________
> >>>  
> >>>
> >> I believe the only way this is going to happen is probably 
> the same 
> >> way Verizon got theres and thats with handing over money.
> >> I think if some one asked how much money it would cost to get 
> >> Macromedia/Adobe to port/create a flash player they might 
> tell us say 
> >> $20k This could easily be reached since other fund raises 
> for FreeBSD 
> >> have accumulated large amounts of money pretty fast.
> >> I talked about this in mid March for the FreeBSD Java 
> project on this 
> >> mailing list as I noticed that Andre Oppermann fund raise was 
> >> obviously quite successful.
> >>
> >> Also Colin Percival did a fund raise less then a week ago got his 
> >> target of $15,000 Canadian in less then a week just to rewrite 2 
> >> programs which are already fully functional.
> > 
> > BTW I forgot to list Colins web site just FYI.
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~cperciva/funding.html
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Mike
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> I would be interested in heading this up if no one objects.  
> I could at least do some of the leg work and see where we sit 
> or if we can even get a dollar amount and go from there.  I 
> am used to dealing with third-parties/vendors.  I do it on a 
> daily basis at my day job and for a side business I am a partner in.
> 
> I would obviously need some sort of blessing from the 
> powers-that-be in the FreeBSD realm.  I don't have an 
> @freebsd.org e-mail address so they may not want any 
> correspondence coming from "noone at nobody.com" (a.k.a.
> me) representing the FreeBSD project.
> 
> Anyway, I'm in!  If I can help or anyone out there in 
> "FreeBSD Headquarters" would like for me to head this up, 
> where do I sign up?  If you're interested, reply to the 
> advocacy mailing list or contact me off list, either way.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Jeff Cross
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