BSD + Adobe Flash News Item

[Giorgos Keramidas]

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