Re: Lack of Flash support is no longer acceptable. Bounty established...
On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 01:02:23PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Chad Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Actually, a more probable explanation is simply that Sun -- as a > > monolithic economic power base in the form of a tech corporation -- > > has more influence with Adobe than what Adobe execs probably see > > (however inaccurately) as a fractious bunch of hobbyists. > > That, or Sun paid them to port it. Well . . . I could make a case for that being covered by my suggestion, since I'd certainly classify paying someone to do something as having "influence". . . . but yeah, that could be the case. -- Chad Perrin [ content licensed PDL: http://pdl.apotheon.org ] Amazon.com interview candidate: "When C++ is your hammer, everything starts to look like your thumb." pgpOC5iqi2eDb.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Lack of Flash support is no longer acceptable. Bountyestablished...
On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 01:40:33PM +0200, Rudi Kramer - MWEB wrote: > > Chad Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Actually, a more probable explanation is simply that Sun -- as a > > > monolithic economic power base in the form of a tech corporation -- > > > has more influence with Adobe than what Adobe execs probably see > > > (however inaccurately) as a fractious bunch of hobbyists. > > > > That, or Sun paid them to port it. > > So maybe someone should tell adobe about the bounty ;-) I wonder how much of a bounty it would take to get Amazon to release a FreeBSD version of the Flash player under the terms of the BSD license. -- Chad Perrin [ content licensed PDL: http://pdl.apotheon.org ] Nat Torkington, on Perl internals: ". . . an interconnected mass of livers and pancreas and lungs and little sharp pointy things and the occasional exploding kidney." pgpTRyImAA1pY.pgp Description: PGP signature
