Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 06:28:29 +0100 From: "Lucian @ lastdot.org" <lucian@lastdot.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Voting for a native i386/amd64 flash player Message-ID: <5a3c8f450910022228k3c196b6ay1acc3031716d673d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20091003045640.GA28502@guilt.hydra> References: <28f938b10910021725p7e615617xf21639d3fb7fcc9d@mail.gmail.com> <4AC6A26E.9080405@gmail.com> <4297a9020910021815p60858505w89abbfa909b99340@mail.gmail.com> <20091003045640.GA28502@guilt.hydra>
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On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 5:56 AM, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 08:15:07PM -0500, J Sisson wrote: >> >> And if enough people petition Microsoft, we can get them to release Wind= ows >> 7 source under the GPL. >> >> Reality called...your request to ignore it was denied. > > Actually, we *could*. =A0The problem is the definition of "enough". =A0I'= m > sure that if you got 100% of the Windows users in the world to do so, > Microsoft top brass would be hard-pressed to avoid acquiescing. > Meanwhile, I'm sure that if you got 1% to do so, it would raise some > eyebrows at Microsoft, but utterly fail to get MS executives to put a > moment's thought into making that kind of licensing change, except > perhaps to laugh at it. =A0The problem is figuring out the exact threshol= d, > somewhere between 1% and 100%. > > In other words, to quote an old off-color joke: > > =A0 =A0"We've already established you're a prostitute, my dear. =A0Now we= 're > =A0 =A0just haggling over the price." > > -- > Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] > Better pray for Theora's mass adoption on streaming sites :-)
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