From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 20 12:16:43 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 446241065671 for ; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:16:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from smtp-vbr3.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr3.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.23]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 805198FC1F for ; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:16:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [82.95.250.254]) by smtp-vbr3.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m5KC3nnW018612; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:03:50 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.14.2/8.13.3) with ESMTP id m5KC3n9H051347; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:03:49 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: (from wb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id m5KC3mNR051346; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:03:48 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wb) Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:03:48 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: Julian Stacey Message-ID: <20080620120348.GA51329@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <20080619154909.A1807@kozubik.com> <200806201158.m5KBwCFg056442@fire.js.berklix.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200806201158.m5KBwCFg056442@fire.js.berklix.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, John Kozubik Subject: Re: Lack of Flash support is no longer acceptable. Bounty established... X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:16:43 -0000 Quoting Julian Stacey, who wrote on Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 01:58:12PM +0200 .. > > From: John Kozubik > > I'm not trying to discount thier efforts, but Adobe makes an honest to god > > release version of flash for Linux, and FreeBSD runs linux binaries very > > "honest to god" != Binary Crap ! > No flash on my machines without public source, checkable for security. > (Unless maybe run in a jail/chroot) That is your view, others could very well be more pragmatic. I would rather have the choice to have a *full working* binary-only Flash than what we have now. I appreciate that we would strongly prefer public source access, but I doubt that will ever happen for Flash. I guess you also have not inspected the full source of (say) OO for security flaws ;-) Wilko > Julian > -- > Julian Stacey: BSDUnixLinux C Prog Admin SysEng Consult Munich www.berklix.com > Mail just Ascii plain text. HTML & Base64 text are spam. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-advocacy-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" --- end of quoted text --- -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org