Flash Petition (Was Re: FreeBSD as a Desktop Article)

[Andrew L. Gould]

On Mon, 9 Jan 2006 05:32:48 -0600
Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 1/8/06, Marc G. Fournier <scrappy at hub.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote:
> >
> > > On 1/5/06, Frank Laszlo <laszlof at vonostingroup.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Kövesdán Gábor wrote:
> > >>> Nikolas Britton wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>> On 1/4/06, James Cornell <speedydemon at shadowdev.org> wrote:
> > >>>>
> > >>>> never mind, I just made one so go sign it!!!
> > >>>> http://www.petitiononline.com/flash4me/petition.html
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>> I've signed it and posted it to a Hungarian open-source
> > >>> community, but I think it would be nice if somebody from the
> > >>> doc team can add it to the news on the website, so I cc'd
> > >>> freebsd-doc@, I hope this helps geting Adobe to release a
> > >>> working Flash for FreeBSD.
> > >>>
> > >>> Regards,
> > >>>
> > >>> Gabor Kovesdan
> > >>
> > >> Not to rain on the parade, but since when has one of those online
> > >> petitions done any good?
> > >>
> > >
> > > It may be trivial but at least I did something to rectify it.
> > > Talking about are problems will get us nowhere unless we also do.
> > > Do you have a better plan of action?
> >
> > The problem is, anyone can sign a petition, even those that don't,
> > nor will ever, use the software, which is what makes them
> > meaningless :(
> >
> > You really need to get someone on the inside that is using FreeBSD
> > and push from that direction ... unless its a product you can pay
> > for, and then you make the dollars speak for you ...
> 
> I make all IT, purchasing, decisions at my company. I suspect most
> other senior IT folk also make or have strong influence in,
> purchasing, decisions at their company's. What are the demographics
> for people who use FreeBSD? I suspect a higher then normal percentage
> of senior IT folk make up the ranks. Here's an excellent example of
> the point I'm trying to make: Last year my company wanted to build a
> flash website. I put my foot down and said no, not everyone can use or
> see flash websites. Macromedia lost a $999 dollar sale.
> 
> >
> > What about the FreeBSD Foundation ... maybe something that they can
> > organize?
> 
> I'm all for that and other organisations getting involved, maybe they
> can actually do something too.

How about a campaign where every time a FreeBSD user comes across a
Flash website, he/she sends the webmaster an email stating that we
can't see their content because Flash is not available for FreeBSD?  I
wonder if we could generate a noticeable volume.

Andrew