I was going flash crazy, because I was tired of doing all my animations with GIMP and making them GIF. I googled and froogled and found that the lowest price for Macromedia Flash MX was 150 dollars, and that was the academic version. Then I started googling for flash alternatives, and I found this:
http://f4l.sourceforge.net/
It's a complete free flash clone with Actionscript support, and I'm fairly certain it has everything that the real flash has, and has the added bonus of being open source.
I haven't had a chance to use this much yet, I dont have linux installed on my computer (I've been using Knoppix). It has a Debian binary, but the rest is source code.
If you have an illegal copy of Macromedia Flash, download this now!!!
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