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Old 20th March 2011
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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.)
I am resurrecting this post in order to give an update on the status of Gnash 0.8.9.
on OpenBSD. It seems that Gnash developers have read Diana's (or maybe this) rant and have really push hard to improve specifically Gnash compatibility with OpenBSD. The new version Gnash 0.8.9 which is just released specifically mention in its release notes improvements on OpenBSD. Brad has already posted update diff on ports@openbsd which is not committed due to some minor problems with shared libraries. I anticipate that the port will be committed in next couple of days. All of you who have been bitching about lack of Flash for OpenBSD (myself included) should install 4.9 snapshots and give Gnash really hard spin.

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