On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 01:24:56PM -0400, David Nalley wrote: > On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 1:07 PM, TK009 <john.brown009@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Paul W. Frields wrote: > >> > >> There are probably people using Fedora who don't care as much about > >> software freedom, and just want a working Adobe Flash. For them, it may > >> be a matter of first resort, and so that admonition hopefully tells them > >> there are alternatives that may work for them, depending on the > >> Flash-based sites they frequent. > >> > >> Is there a better way I could put this so it's not misunderstood? > >> > >> > > > > Being first and foremost a marketing guy, no I do not believe you could have > > put it any better. > > There is also freedom of choice. Those that would use adobe as the a first > > choice are not freedom haters. > > You never used those words but your tone suggested it to me. It was a slight > > and I read it as such. > > > It's not a slight - just the way things are. People who care about > software freedom don't willingly choose to perpetuate non-free > software. ie, people who care about software freedom use ogg instead > of mp3, use free video drivers, instead of proprietary blobs. > It's a akin to the difference between a vegetarian and omnivore. If > you are a vegetarian you don't willingly eat meat. There is no slight > intended or inferred, but you can't be a vegetarian and eat prime rib, > you are an omnivore (or perhaps carnivore, but it's unlikely that you > only consume meat). Those terms aren't slights, it's just the way > things are. Admittedly we don't have nice labels to attach to 'people > who care about free software' and 'people who don't care about free > software'; but the situation is analogous. I think a simple way of putting this is, "not caring" is not the same as "hating." I don't care particularly about asparagus farming, but I certainly don't hate it or the people who care about it. We all pick the things that really matter to us, and the rest doesn't automatically go into a "hate" pile. Fedora respects people's right to choose, and so do I. That's why I worked on that page! :-) -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
