Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 12:15:37 +0100 From: "C. P. Ghost" <cpghost@cordula.ws> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Flash viewer for FBSD Message-ID: <d74eb87c1003060315i3b43d912qb3e6a53bd9c548d4@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20100306100107.076b65be.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20100305120021.52F79106566B@hub.freebsd.org> <b6c669b044c35b74e4d1d74a493106fb.squirrel@webmail.plus.net> <20100306044916.ce02523e.freebsd@edvax.de> <a9bdd460c08aefdfff88721137f44e87.squirrel@webmail.plus.net> <20100306100107.076b65be.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote: > If they don't want to make one, there's no way to convince > them. Since the majority of free and standardized operating > systems isn't oriented at market share, there is no reason > for Adobe to follow a crying "Please!" :-) There is only one way to convince them: through legislation! You may live in a world of bliss where you can access your online bank via standardized HTML, where you can fill in your IRS (or equivalent) forms, various applications etc. without Flash, but many parts of the world are a lot more dependent on Flash. Of course, one can always send complaints to those banks and public services who use Flash-only interfaces, but those complaints usually get ignored and thrown in the grey dumpster. If you try to escalate your complaint, the letter goes from the grey into the red dumpster, but you're still effectively locked out. That's the problem with near-monopolies of proprietary formats: sometimes you can't escape them and have to resort to tricks (like emulations etc...) to make them work. -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/
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