Re: Debian money
Giacomo A. Catenazzi dijo [Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 02:10:55PM +0200]:
>> A working free software implementation of the flash web plugin is a
>> requirement for Debian to provide a complete free software based
>> desktop. At the moment flash is used on so many web sites that the
>> common user will not accept a browser without working Flash. I
>> believe that should be a priority of the Debian project to provide a
>> complete free software desktop. And as Gnash is one of the few
>> projects where money will help speed up development, I believe
>> spending Debian money on Gnash is a good idea. Why should Debian not
>> sponsor upstream development for projects that are important to
>> Debian?
>
> It is useful not only for Debian, so IMHO Debian could donate some
> money, but only if other big distributions (RedHat, SuSe/Novel, Ubuntu,
> etc.) do the same.
Some of the big distributions have no moral problem in including
Adobe's propietary plugin, though. We do.
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