Flash instructions updated

David dgboles at comcast.net
Fri May 22 18:05:26 UTC 2009


On 5/22/2009 1:46 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> 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 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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! :-)
> 




Just keep repeating to yourself, "Linux is and OS...  Linux is not a
cause...   Linux is and OS...   Linux is not a cause..."

:-)

-- 


  David




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