Yum better than RPM?
Rudolf Kastl
che666 at gmail.com
Thu Mar 2 20:06:14 UTC 2006
2006/3/2, James Wilkinson <fedora at westexe.demon.co.uk>:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
> > I think you are shooting yourself in the foot here. It's one
> > thing to demand a free Linux download for 1% of the market
> > but now you want to make that a bunch of different versions,
> > each with their own quirks (AMD doesn't make the only
> > 64 bit processor).
>
> To be honest, I run 64 bit and a 64 bit browser because I *don't care*
> about Macromedia (or the other closed-source plugins). I already
> consider their products to add so little of value and (especially in the
> case of Flash) sufficient annoyance that I wouldn't install them even if
> they did port to AMD64.
>
> Besides, I place quite a lot of value on the old vision of the Internet
> as being cross-platform, non-vendor specific, and standards based. Until
> "at least two independent and interoperable implementations from
> different code bases have been developed" (RFC2026 section 4.1.2, part
> of the criteria for an Internet Standard), in my book Flash does not
> count as part of the Internet.
>
> James.
i couldnt agree more here.
regards,
Rudolf Kastl
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