AS3/Flash Dev Teams: Help me fix Flash's Clipboard API on Linux!

Hello!
I am hoping to get in touch with the Adobe development team responsible for the ActionScript framework (for Flash Player, in particular). I would really like to work with them to fix this bug (or, hell, attempt to fix it myself if they'd give me access to their source control):
   https://bugbase.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=bug&id=3482860
Long-story-short:
The "System Clipboard" API (plain text format only) from Flash 9 worked wonderfully cross-platform (Windows, MacOSX, Linux).
However, the AS3 "Desktop Clipboard" API (plain text, HTML, RTF, and custom formats) introduced in Flash 10 has issues on Linux. In particular, it only set contents into a particular 1 of Linux's (X's) 3 clipboard/selection buffers, which prevents Linux users from pasting the copied contents into a Terminal session. The "System Clipboard" API from Flash 9 does not suffer from this problem. (More background details are available in the Adobe bug linked above as well as the GitHub bug linked below).
This bug has downstream ramifications for a relatively popular open source library (e.g. used by GitHub.com and bit.ly) that I maintain called ZeroClipboard:
   https://github.com/jonrohan/ZeroClipboard/issues/78
As such, I would very much like to see these issues resolved, and am willing to actively help if at all possible.
If there is a better way to get in touch with the AS3/Flash Dev Teams than the bugbase or these forums (e.g. a team email address, particular dev's Twitter account, etc.), please let me know. Thank you in advance!
P.S. Yes, I know that Linux is no longer officially supported by Flash Player but I also know that Linux users still manage to install the latest versions of Flash with a few workarounds. It is also heavily used by GitHub.com users, and is therefore a high priority user base for ZeroClipboard.
P.P.S. I also tried to get a contact via the various Adobe/Flash/Flex Twitter accounts without any success.
Sincerely,
   James M. Greene

Epic failure. Worked hard to contact Adobe devs and finally got through to the team via their OSS director. End result: they'll only do for security patches for Linux, won't even consider other bug fixes.

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