"danteash...@gmail.com" wrote: > When I started using Ubuntu, I spent weeks trying to find out how to > get Flash, DVD's and other such rubbish to run, because whilst F/OSS > extremists/purists hate to admit it, we are still, sadly, reliant on > such technology.
This is a little like saying "because, whilst vegetarians hate to admit it, we are still, sadly, reliant on meat". Anybody who is a F/OSS extremist or purist will, surely, hold that principle above being able to watch flash videos or listen to music encoded in mp3. Personally, I'm not really that reliant on it; probably most of the reason I manage to avoid all this hassle installing proprietary drivers and codecs is because the large majority of what I do either involves free codecs and sensible software, or incredibly simple installers (like flashplugin-nonfree). I don't, for example, know how to get DVD video playing working under any Linux, because I've never really felt the need to. And I'm really not a FOSS extremist or purist; I'm just incredibly lazy. -- Avi. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
