On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 12:48:01AM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: > > Dont we have an upstream mantra to uphold... > > > > Forward all Fedora users and otherwize that experience this to Adobe.. > > > > If we are going hack around this on our side where are we going to draw > > the line.. > > > > Are we planning to start hacking around every ill written code out there? > > +1 > > It is not our job to support Adobe's proprietary software, it is Adobe's > job! This is a bug in Adobe's code and any complaints should be redirected > to Adobe. Including workaround for bugs in proprietary software in our code > is entirely the wrong thing to do. > > If you want software we or you can actually fix, use Free Software! > > (Maybe Flash being broken can actually get more interest into Gnash and > Lightspark, which can only be a good thing! So it's actually GOOD if the > proprietary Flash does not work. The fact that there's a free-as-in-beer > proprietary implementation of something tends to be a big motivation remover > for implementing a truly Free version, so having it break is actually good > for our community. But we don't need to go out of our way to deliberately > break it, we should just not work around its bugs!) +1 to this. Reading this thread, I was starting to forget that we're supposed to be about Free software ... Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/ -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
