Lack of Flash support is no longer acceptable. Bounty established...

Wilko Bulte wb at freebie.xs4all.nl
Fri Jun 20 12:39:20 UTC 2008


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 at 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

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Wilko Bulte				wilko at FreeBSD.org


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