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Old 28th July 2008
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Originally Posted by uptonm View Post
...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.
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.
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