Re: Adobe flash is dead

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

>> Why bother with non-free software when we're talking about a technology
>> that's dying like BSD these days?
> Because right now, realistically it's the only game in town if one wants 
> to watch flash content. When HTML5 comes along and I am able to get rid 
> of /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so I shall be only too 
> delighted. Until then, one has to be pragmatic.

There are many ways to be pragmatic.  Nowadays, Gnash works well enough
for me that my notion of "pragmatic" is simply "say good bye to
web-sites which are too poor to work with Gnash".


        Stefan