Giacomo A. Catenazzi dijo [Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 02:10:55PM +0200]: >> A working free software implementation of the flash web plugin is a >> requirement for Debian to provide a complete free software based >> desktop. At the moment flash is used on so many web sites that the >> common user will not accept a browser without working Flash. I >> believe that should be a priority of the Debian project to provide a >> complete free software desktop. And as Gnash is one of the few >> projects where money will help speed up development, I believe >> spending Debian money on Gnash is a good idea. Why should Debian not >> sponsor upstream development for projects that are important to >> Debian? > > It is useful not only for Debian, so IMHO Debian could donate some > money, but only if other big distributions (RedHat, SuSe/Novel, Ubuntu, > etc.) do the same.
Some of the big distributions have no moral problem in including Adobe's propietary plugin, though. We do. -- Gunnar Wolf • gw...@gwolf.org • (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
