Flash plugin status

[Jona Joachim]

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:24:07 -0700
Rudy <crapsh at MonkeyBrains.NET> wrote:

> 
> About a month ago, Flash 7 was marked unsafe, and Flash 9 doesn't
> work on many sites.
> 
>   [1] Anyone have any tricks to get Flash 9 working in 7.x?
>   [2] Any update on getting the freebsd foundation to take
>       on Flash (ala Java)?

That would be horrible!
Do you want the FreeBSD Foundation to work against our freedom and
encourage the use of proprietary binary formats on the World Wide Web?
Whenever I come to a Flash-only site I just move away thinking that the
content is probably not worth wasting my time.
You might want to consider gnash. While gnash cannot replace Flash as
of today it is evolving quickly.


Best regards,
Jona

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