Flash instructions updated
Lawrence E. Graves
lgraves at risingstarmbc.com
Sun May 24 14:58:40 UTC 2009
On Sun, 2009-05-24 at 07:36 -0600, Christopher A. Williams wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-05-24 at 09:29 +0200, Kåre Fiedler Christiansen wrote:
>
> > Anyway, you are hardly being constructive. Do you seriously suggest
> > that the page describing how to use the Adobe flash plugin is better
> > if you omit how to make a certain feature of it work? Currently you
> > will simply get distorted images if you try to use the feature, and it
> > will reflect on Fedora as if Fedora doesn't support webcams properly.
>
> Indeed!
>
> In fact, this entire thread is one hornet's nest that I truly regret
> having somehow kicked over. Believe me when I say that was _never_ my
> intent.
>
> By the by, I never got to answer Paul's question of how he could have
> put this better with respect to "people who care about software
> freedom", as it appeared. The interesting part is, if you read the posts
> carefully, we're in agreement about the values, but just have a slight
> difference of opinion in in how they are best expressed. And even then,
> there was room for discussion and compromise. I would have used
> something like this to make the point:
>
> The page has been updated to include that 1) Flash is not Free
> Software (although it may be available free of charge), and 2)
> that there are Free and Open Source software alternatives to
> Flash which may be adequate for an individual user's needs.
> Making this annotation is in keeping with Fedora's values of
> promoting and encouraging the use of Free and Open Source
> software.
>
> I think this makes the same point, but does so in a way that better
> avoids the "slight" that I and a couple of others detected in the
> language.
>
> OK - moving on now. Hopefully others will as well! There a release that
> still needs a few small kinks knocked out and we don't need to be
> distracted.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris
>
>
> --
> =============================
> "You see things as they are and ask, 'Why?'
> I dream things as they never were and ask, 'Why not?'"
>
> -- George Bernard Shaw
>
Thanks for your effort to end this unneeded war over opinions. I agree
this energy could be used elsewhere. Let us move on to bigger and
better things.
>
>
>
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Lawrence E. Graves <lgraves at risingstarmbc.com>
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