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Originally Posted by uptonm
...there is no room for any bitterness about adobe not making flash available on the bsd desktop in light of adobe's use of bsd code.
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Adobe does not use BSD code to my knowledge. It is more of a frustration, and not bitterness, that things like Flash and PDFs are supposed to be "universal" tools, in spite of their viewers being closed-source applications.
One would think that Adobe would then make available their tools on a wide variety of platforms. In reality, they don't: they support Windows and OS X, with some support for Linux and less so for Solaris. BSD is out in the cold. We think that is wrong, since it is a much-used OS. Adobe just disagrees.
The situation is better for PDFs, since a detailed specification on the file format is available, and viewers based on Poppler are getting much better.