[coment(s) below] Maybe I am missing something, but isn't the petition about getting the FreeBSD desktop to be able to view flash sites (I hope so). If I am mistaken, I apologize for my OT spam. I have a bunch of those emails sitting in my box and I am just now bursting to make a comment here. I _really_ hope that some bounty gets paid or something that implies that I will be able to do cvsup or patch or whatever Oh dear. This could be the intractable part of the problem for the time bei...

Of course it won't cause a paradigm shift, but it can be used to show that many people/users are not at all impressed but annoyed with "sleak" flash sites, which might just be enough to convince a few people/sites. Even if only manages to convince a few people .. Is it not worth your Actually, that's not true, big commercial sites are usable because more usability == more profit, and since flash != usable, flash == less profit. Big sites like Amazon, Ebay, Google, Yahoo, etc. are all relativ...

Its finally very good to note people who know how to do it are being working on it. At a time Linux is either fading or struggling on desktop, and at a time Linux developers have to beg for OEMs for open source drivers that they never get, it is the undeniable responsibility of the FreeBSD developers who know how to clear those issues to clear it and make the infrastructure ready for OEMs to develop drivers for FreeBSD. Success of the FreeBSD based desktop depends on the availability of drivers dir...