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["George Georgalis" <george@xxxxxxxxx>]

Please sign petition for flash on *BSD.
http://arameus.net/petition/index.php


On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 02:52:31PM -0400, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>On Aug 15, 2004, at 12:45 PM, Scott Robbins wrote:
>
>>A BSD enthusiast on the BSD forums has posted a petition to sign to be
>>sent to Macromedia asking for a BSD flash version.
>>
>>Regardless of what we feel about flash pages :), it does seem a way to
>>let a vendor know that BSD is major market.
>>
>>The petition is at
>>http://arameus.net/petition/index.php
>>
>>At present there are still very few (48 or so) signatures.
>
>Flash isn't just for web pages; it's pretty important for embedded 
>applications.  It's definitely the quickest and cheapest way to develop 
>a custom GUI (no standard widgets, which is fine for touchscreen apps). 
> I know of several companies that develop Linux based kiosk systems 
>that use Flash.  I've worked on a few in the past.  Having another OS 
>option would be nice.
>
>-bob
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