From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 3 05:28:30 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D42CD106566B for ; Sat, 3 Oct 2009 05:28:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lucian@lastdot.org) Received: from mail-ew0-f209.google.com (mail-ew0-f209.google.com [209.85.219.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76EF58FC1E for ; Sat, 3 Oct 2009 05:28:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy5 with SMTP id 5so746237ewy.36 for ; Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:28:29 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.53.8 with SMTP id f8mr538922wec.171.1254547709528; Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:28:29 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20091003045640.GA28502@guilt.hydra> References: <28f938b10910021725p7e615617xf21639d3fb7fcc9d@mail.gmail.com> <4AC6A26E.9080405@gmail.com> <4297a9020910021815p60858505w89abbfa909b99340@mail.gmail.com> <20091003045640.GA28502@guilt.hydra> Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 06:28:29 +0100 Message-ID: <5a3c8f450910022228k3c196b6ay1acc3031716d673d@mail.gmail.com> From: "Lucian @ lastdot.org" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: Voting for a native i386/amd64 flash player X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2009 05:28:30 -0000 On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 5:56 AM, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 08:15:07PM -0500, J Sisson wrote: >> >> And if enough people petition Microsoft, we can get them to release Wind= ows >> 7 source under the GPL. >> >> Reality called...your request to ignore it was denied. > > Actually, we *could*. =A0The problem is the definition of "enough". =A0I'= m > sure that if you got 100% of the Windows users in the world to do so, > Microsoft top brass would be hard-pressed to avoid acquiescing. > Meanwhile, I'm sure that if you got 1% to do so, it would raise some > eyebrows at Microsoft, but utterly fail to get MS executives to put a > moment's thought into making that kind of licensing change, except > perhaps to laugh at it. =A0The problem is figuring out the exact threshol= d, > somewhere between 1% and 100%. > > In other words, to quote an old off-color joke: > > =A0 =A0"We've already established you're a prostitute, my dear. =A0Now we= 're > =A0 =A0just haggling over the price." > > -- > Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] > Better pray for Theora's mass adoption on streaming sites :-)