On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:53:58 -0400
Gilbert Sullivan<whirlygig@comcast.net> wrote:
Ah! That makes more sense. I was kind of feeling dirty for a little
bit there, wondering just who the GNU/Linux developers might be
crawling into bed with!
Chromium is all BSD, its google chrome that is a bit dirty ;)
I wouldn't mind seeing flash go away -- perhaps to be replaced by
HTML5 (and moonlight?). Flash has been mostly a pain to me for years
-- especially when my wife was still using Windows. I'm delighted to
have an Open Source solution for playing flash -- even if it doesn't
exactly work perfectly. At least with Debian package management I
don't have to worry about traces of old, insecure versions of the
player hanging on in the system even after I've supposedly "updated"
it.
Flash might be one of the "evils" of the web, but it better than
moonlight as most silverlight stuff wont work in moonlight 2.2 where
as flash v10.1 works with pretty much everything (ignoring the total
lack of a good 64bit plug-in and the instability of nsplugins!), just
about.