Nikolas Britton wrote:
On 1/8/06, Marc G. Fournier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote:
On 1/5/06, Frank Laszlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Kövesdán Gábor wrote:
Nikolas Britton wrote:
On 1/4/06, James Cornell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
never mind, I just made one so go sign it!!!
http://www.petitiononline.com/flash4me/petition.html
I've signed it and posted it to a Hungarian open-source community, but
I think it would be nice if somebody from the doc team can add it to
the news on the website, so I cc'd freebsd-doc@, I hope this helps
geting Adobe to release a working Flash for FreeBSD.
Regards,
Gabor Kovesdan
Not to rain on the parade, but since when has one of those online
petitions done any good?
It may be trivial but at least I did something to rectify it. Talking
about are problems will get us nowhere unless we also do. Do you have
a better plan of action?
The problem is, anyone can sign a petition, even those that don't, nor
will ever, use the software, which is what makes them meaningless :(
You really need to get someone on the inside that is using FreeBSD and
push from that direction ... unless its a product you can pay for, and
then you make the dollars speak for you ...
I make all IT, purchasing, decisions at my company. I suspect most
other senior IT folk also make or have strong influence in,
purchasing, decisions at their company's. What are the demographics
for people who use FreeBSD? I suspect a higher then normal percentage
of senior IT folk make up the ranks. Here's an excellent example of
the point I'm trying to make: Last year my company wanted to build a
flash website. I put my foot down and said no, not everyone can use or
see flash websites. Macromedia lost a $999 dollar sale.
Same here - I also host several domains on a colocated server, and I
tell everyone who is getting a site done to refuse flash for their
website creation. I point them in other directions, and cite that flash
is not visible to everyone. I'm sure I've stopped the sale of at least
10 macromedia sales, not to mention the sites that use flash to display
product information losing business from those of us that are using a
FreeBSD desktop and want to order something online. I get frustrated,
and find another site selling the product, or skip the purchase altogether.
Eric
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