BSD + Adobe Flash News Item
Giorgos Keramidas
keramida at ceid.upatras.gr
Thu Apr 19 01:33:36 UTC 2007
On 2007-04-18 08:59, Matt Olander <matt at iXsystems.com> wrote:
> While Adobe hasn't agreed to port Flash to FreeBSD (yet!), they have
> agreed to re-distribution of the Flash player. I obtained 2 separate
> re-distribution agreements, one for PC-BSD and one for the FreeBSD
> Foundation.
>
> The lead Flash Product Manager at Adobe, Emmy Huang, who is also a
> strong open source advocate, was a great help to me getting this far and
> she will be blogging about this shortly.
>
> In the meantime, here's the very simple press release for PC-BSD/Flash:
> http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/04/prweb519843.htm
>
> I won't give up on a native port, but I'm not holding my breathe either.
> Hopefully, now that we've got the right contacts at Adobe, it will be
> easier to pursue the port.
>
> The more people that can pick this news up in their blogs, the better.
> Also, if someone can post it to the News section of the FreeBSD site, great!
Posted ...
http://keramida.wordpress.com/2007/04/19/flash-support-for-bsd-step-1/
Many thanks to iXsystems for getting this going :-)
- Giorgos
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