Hi Carlo,
Carlo Wood wrote:
I can't help but sense a political reason not to support flash, just because it's "non-free", the maintainers of debian WANT it to be broken, almost, and certainly don't look hard for a way to give
As a Debian user, but someone who isn't related to how Debian is run...I think you are correct and more importantly, what makes you think that Debian isn't political? Every time I visit a web site with Iceweasel and the server pops up an annoying message saying that Firefox is supported but not my browser, I sense only a part of the overall politics in Debian. In this case, I blame the server developers, too, for having such a message (how about if I used lynx?).
Anyway, there is a lot of politics within Debian and it stems from them drawing a line that forms the basis of what Debian is (i.e., "free"). If they start making exceptions, then that line has no meaning. Backports is a patch that helps make it easy for many of us. We give up some things to be able to use Debian (rather than one of the many other Linux distributions).
Just my 2 cents... Ray -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
