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Re: (OT) gnash vs. flash (was Re: Why does installing gnome ...)



On 2010-03-17 16:35, Neal Hogan wrote:
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
On 2010-03-17 10:40, Stefan Monnier wrote:
Installing Gnash screws up Flash.
That is the core of the problem that needs to be fixed.
There's no reason the two shouldn't be able to coexist peacefully so
that each user on the machine can choose which flash player she wants
to use.

The rub is that Debian doesn't officially know that Flash exists. Even if it
did, too many DDs are morally opposed to closed-source to want to Depend on
it.

I highly suspect a flame-war here, but isn't against the
"Stallmanian-principle" for a linux machines to play with those
proprietary kids AT ALL. That is, debian (or any other linux) should
not even consider talking with that kind of software. I'm just curious
how many linux users/devs/etc maintain that position, given that I'm
not one of those users.


Enough DDs are sufficiently practical for there to be a non-free tree, and Christian Marillat does yeoman's work with http://www.debian-multimedia.org/.

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