> by the way, is there an equivalent of flash in the freed software world???

gnash
http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/

but:

"Status
Gnash is being actively developed at the moment. Therefore, although
many features work, not all movies play successfully. The forth alpha
release of Gnash has just been made at version 0.8.1 on August 29,
2007."



ciao
andrea