Re: Flash-only MetaLink :-(
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 21:20:19 +0200
Message-ID: <442adaf60907091220w513448b7xeedc60a36a99aa00_at_mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 20:25, Bill Ferguson <wbfergus_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> One of the moderators there says that newer version geared towards
> "end-users", meaning basically people that don't know what they are
> doing and are easily impressed by useless graphics.
Well, OK, but does it have to be Flash? I mean, Google Docs, Reader, GMail work splendidly on my HP-UX workstation and are no less geared towards end-users...
I'm not an Open Source zealot by a long shot (I like the idea, though), but I can't help but notice that it is the closed, proprietary nature of Flash that's causing the problem here - I am able to happily run Firefox 2 on HP-UX only because somebody could scratch their private itch by porting Firefox to HP-UX; HP seems to have no itch for newer Flash versions (last available: *Macromedia* Flash 6), Adobe doesn't seem to care either, and nobody else can scratch that itch, since Flash is proprietary. Although Oracle probably could, and should, if you ask me.
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