From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 26 12:30:43 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 A4384106564A for ; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:30:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andreas.xanke@edvax.de) Received: from mx02.qsc.de (mx02.qsc.de [213.148.130.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 367CB8FC2C for ; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:30:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andreas.xanke@edvax.de) Received: from r55.edvax.de (port-92-196-68-197.dynamic.qsc.de [92.196.68.197]) by mx02.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB71316C02BA; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:12:43 +0100 (CET) Received: from r55.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r55.edvax.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with SMTP id n0QCCc9d005093; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:12:38 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from andreas.xanke@edvax.de) Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:12:37 +0100 From: Andreas Xanke To: Wojciech Puchar Message-Id: <20090126131237.f38c572c.andreas.xanke@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20090126130242.F69204@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <1232945177.32181.27.camel@laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au> <20090126130242.F69204@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.7 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Da Rock , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Solaris Compat? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Andreas Xanke List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:30:43 -0000 On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:04:13 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar wrote: > it's nonsense to FreeBSD developers to do workaround just because adobe=20 > don't want to make FreeBSD binary. >=20 > If they don't want to make, then they DONT WANT US to use their product. > They DO HAVE RIGHT to do so, and please respect their rights! >=20 > PS. Of course it's nonsense what they do, but again it's their right to d= o=20 > stupid things I do share this point of view, but sadly, an open system like the Web has been polluted and made unusable (or at least has the tendency to be this way) for those who cannot access this propretary product / format. Don't get me wrong, I've played a bit with "Flash" on FreeBSD, found it useless and am living happily now without it, without getting bothered to install strange "Plugins" or "Extensions" all day long. The day "Flash" will be an open standard and will be integrated into browsers (such as graphic formats are, or even other media), then I'll think about it again, for sure. But as long as something that unimportant hooks so deeply into the system that it's hard work to create workarounds to use it (swfdecoder, linux-flash, gnash etc.), it simply isn't worth thinking about. Or could you imagine that a company would release some software that makes it possible to view PNG images within a webpage, but your OS isn't intended to have support for this, because it would require the modification of the OS kernel? :-) --=20 "Die Rechtschreibreform ist v=F6llig in Ordnung, wenn man weder lesen noch schreiben kann." (Loriot)