From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 20 07:01:14 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79C021065676 for ; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:01:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from murray@stokely.org) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.174]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C85008FC0A for ; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:01:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from murray@stokely.org) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id q2so1187469uge.37 for ; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:01:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.67.119.8 with SMTP id w8mr11235911ugm.34.1213945272802; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:01:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.67.23.11 with HTTP; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:01:12 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <2a7894eb0806200001wd8da70dh20441d9504259ce4@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:01:12 -0700 From: "Murray Stokely" Sender: murray@stokely.org To: "David E. Thiel" In-Reply-To: <20080620045912.GI22907@redundancy.redundancy.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080619135114.Y1807@kozubik.com> <20080620045912.GI22907@redundancy.redundancy.org> X-Google-Sender-Auth: f73abe9e7c1c7977 Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Lack of Flash support is no longer acceptable. Bounty established... X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:01:14 -0000 On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 9:59 PM, David E. Thiel wrote: > On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 02:37:48PM -0700, John Kozubik wrote: >> FreeBSD is not useful as a desktop environment without the ability to >> support Flash in a stable, well-performing fashion. > > Nonsense. This presumes anything "useful" has ever been written in > flash. Believe it or not, there is useful content on the web in Flash : Google [Flash filetype:swf site:nasa.gov] (without the brackets). - Murray