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Originally Posted by BSDfan666 View Post
The current maintainer, or well, past maintainer.. Deanna Phillips, has pretty much given up on work involved maintaining gnash (..it is rather large, lots of dependencies).
Deanna Phillips has given up on Flash not due to the lack of her time or competence. She is a very, very competent computer scientists. She has given up because Gnash developers are assholes (her words) who care only about GNU ideology and fighting Microsoft. According to her Gnash developers were actively discussing dropping support for non-Linux and non-Windows platforms. Her patches were rejected on numerous occasions. On one occasion her patch was rejected because Gnash developers felt that Windows port should have the highest priority and they didn't want to waist their time with such an obscure OS like OpenBSD.

With a bit of search you can find the version of her story on the Internet. (it was either posted on misc or as a comment for a relatively recent OpenBSD journal article.)
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