--- On Fri, 5/22/09, Adam Williamson <awilliam(a)redhat.com> wrote:
From: Adam Williamson <awilliam(a)redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Flash instructions updated
To: "For testers of Fedora Core development releases"
<fedora-test-list(a)redhat.com>
Date: Friday, May 22, 2009, 3:42 PM
On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 15:30 -0700,
Antonio Olivares wrote:
> Exactly. If the thing does not work, then you
have to use the tool
> that works. I tried the gnash and it did not do
the job. You have to
> use the tools that work for you.
>
> That it does not match the goals of the Fedora
project, yes I have to
> agree with Adam. But on the other hand, but one
has to use the tools
> that work for our systems and those include the nvidia
drivers and the
> flash plugin from Adobe.
That was never the point here; no-one's trying to tell
anyone what to do
on his or her own personal system. Heck, I use the Adobe
Flash plugin,
and the NVIDIA proprietary driver. But what we were talking
about is a
page on the Fedora Wiki - which should be written with the
Fedora
philosophy in mind. That's all.
I think most people who run Fedora would either be free
software
purists, or would say "use free software first, but if you
can't find
any that works for the job in hand, non-free is okay". The
change to the
page that Paul wrote simply states the second - if you care
about free
software, a non-free piece of software is clearly the last
resort, i.e.,
you use it if nothing free does the job. It probably helps
if you think
about the alternative: if you *don't* care about free
software, then
there's no reason Adobe Flash would be the last resort,
because you
wouldn't give a fig if it were free or not. It would be the
first
resort, probably, because it's the plugin from the author
of Flash, and
it's what most people use. So you'd pick it *first*, and go
to a
third-party alternative only if it didn't work for you.
That's the only
distinction being drawn.
--
Okay, this argument is reasonable. It is for the wiki, then the points stated are
legitimate and thank you for sharing the points. Sorry if I came too hard :(
Regards,
Antonio