--- On Fri, 5/22/09, David <dgboles(a)comcast.net> wrote:
From: David <dgboles(a)comcast.net>
Subject: Re: Flash instructions updated
To: "For testers of Fedora Core development releases"
<fedora-test-list(a)redhat.com>
Date: Friday, May 22, 2009, 1:34 PM
On 5/22/2009 3:05 PM, Adam Williamson
wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 14:05 -0400, David wrote:
>
>> Just keep repeating to yourself, "Linux is an
OS... Linux is not a
>> cause... Linux is an
OS... Linux is not a cause..."
>>
>> :-)
>
> Linux isn't an OS, it's a kernel. Fedora is an OS (and
a project which
> creates an OS), and Fedora certainly has a cause
element to it. Note
> that the first of Fedora's four pillars is Freedom. :)
The Fedora
> project is not a project to create the best-working
operating system at
> a given moment in time with no regard to the freedom
of the code it
> contains, so in this respect, your position does not
match that of the
> Fedora project in general.
Just how often have you heard someone answer, when asked,
'what OS do
you use?' Something other than 'Linux'? Seldom is the name
of the
distribution used.
And that was not my point anyway. One person here needs a
working Flash
for his work so he uses Flash from Adobe. And another
person was calling
him, sort of, a 'traitor to the free software cause'
because he was not
using the somewhat broken gnash. He did not call it by
name. I can think
of several places the gnash does not work.
This is all baloney. Use the tool that will do what you
need to do. A
computer is a machine, a toll. Not an altar. Bread on the
table beats
hungry every time. IMO.
--
AMEN!!!
David
--
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.
Linux is a kernel, yes, but the OS is also called Linux(whether people like it or not).
Some call it GNU/Linux and you can create problems with what one writes here. I call it
Linux, he called it Linux you call it Fedora.
/bye
Regards,
Antonio