Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:39:17 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Julian Stacey <jhs@berklix.org> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Lack of Flash support is no longer acceptable. Bounty established... Message-ID: <20080620123917.GD51593@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <200806201228.m5KCRwSu057030@fire.js.berklix.net> References: <20080620120348.GA51329@freebie.xs4all.nl> <200806201228.m5KCRwSu057030@fire.js.berklix.net>
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Quoting Julian Stacey, who wrote on Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 02:27:58PM +0200 .. > Wilko Bulte wrote: > > Quoting Julian Stacey, who wrote on Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 01:58:12PM +0200 .. > > > > From: John Kozubik <john@kozubik.com> > > > > 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. > > Agreed. Free choice for all. > Personaly Flash is too much of a PITA for me with all its problems, > ever changing solutions on versions tools archs eg amd64, & risks. And that is not even considering the total disaster it is for people with a visual handicap.. > True, I only read sources to tweak code or where manuals are bad. > But fact of sources being public must discourage much evil minded > coding hiding in plain view ready for dicovery, where alerts will > follow. Yes, you are right of course. It is good we continue to have goal to work towards 8-) take care, Wilko -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org
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