Re: petition for native Flash player

2006-01-07 Thread ac
Dieter wrote: A binary release, while useful to some, would only be useful for one platform. And would have to be installed in a chroot jail for security reasons. FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD and Linux run on many hardware platforms. Thus the only reasonable solution is a reader/player in source code

petition for native Flash player

2006-01-07 Thread Dieter
A binary release, while useful to some, would only be useful for one platform. And would have to be installed in a chroot jail for security reasons. FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD and Linux run on many hardware platforms. Thus the only reasonable solution is a reader/player in source code. Until then, many

Macromedia Flash for FreeBSD petition

2006-01-07 Thread Andrew L. Gould
I have read, and signed the online petition for Flash at: http://www.petitiononline.com/flash4me/petition.html I'm not sure that telling Macromedia that people will not switch to FreeBSD until FreeBSD has Flash will be very persuasive. Macromedia (probably) does not care about FreeBSD. They may c

Re: Signatures needed, petition for native Flash player.

2006-01-07 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Sat, 7 Jan 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: > I need everyone on the lists to go sign the petition for Macromedia to > make a FreeBSD native version of their Flash player. I also need I rarely use Macromedia. Does it have an open specification(s)? If not, is it worth encouraging its continued use

Signatures needed, petition for native Flash player.

2006-01-07 Thread Nikolas Britton
Hello all, I need everyone on the lists to go sign the petition for Macromedia to make a FreeBSD native version of their Flash player. I also need everyone to help spread the word so we can get more sigs. http://www.petitiononline.com/flash4me/petition.html Discussion of this topic should take p

Microsoft Offfice on FreeBSD

2006-01-07 Thread Tom Wickline
Hello, I have put together a small MS Office on BSD via Wine Howto here: http://wiki.winehq.org/Office-BSD?action=show Tom ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any