Aaron Digulla wrote:
Am 15.07.2015 um 04:09 schrieb Basil Chupin: I suggest to use real news sources ....
I am not disagreeing with what you said, but it *would* make sense. FLASH=SVG+JAVASCRIPT in a proprietary format. HTML5 has both and suitable replacement tech.. and flash has definitely had more than it's share of problems compared to other plugins. Acrobat, I'm sure, is another format on the kill list, as soon as there is a standardized encapsulated doc format suitable for replacing it (there is, sorta -- HTML-email, but everyone has a knee-jerk reaction to it to hate it... but all the things that go into a pdf *container*, could go in email attachments, with the whole doc being a self-enclosed format -- with one "show stopper" (that probably won't take too long to cure) -- encrypted and with the ability to disable a user printing it, or changing it, or perhaps even saving it (if the encryption key expires, it might not let you open the doc). Basically, neither goog nor moz have need for flash nor the headaches it brings. Adobe has been getting a bit too insulated from their customers and the need to innovate. To help themselves to a more comfy life, they stopped selling most products and forced ALL their customers s(including home/end users) onto SW rental contracts. Their product prices were already 'outrageous' because there was no competition, but w/o competition, there was a noticeable slowdown in innovation. Many of the programs they have, are among the best in their class (though maybe the only ones in their class). But many of those programs Adobe didn't develop, but acquired through purchasing other companies -- and those are the programs that seem to have the most problems -- probably because the core developers of those products didn't come with the sale. The main reason that may keep Adobe from a hard fall. They've had bugs in some of their products for 5-10 years (looking back in their forums).. bugs that never were fixed in the retail products, but you can get fixed versions, if you go on their service plan. Nice. Of course --- that's the way the market is going, because innovation is hard. But a monthly income for doing nothing but the minimum necessary, is easy -- ask the big utilities. Even MS is starting their campaign for people to be suckered into the WIN10 rental. Get your free-Win10 Fix(upgrade)... the 1st year is free...After that... no telling what the MS-dealers will charge. The UEFI and secure boot are the kicker to close the open SW door. While MS required Secureboot to be on all non-x86 platforms for them to get a MS-Win-approved seal on the HW, that was in Win8... I don't know, when, but it's pretty obvious that they will start putting pressure on the x86(64) platform eventually... and then... where will linux be?... Even Suse has to get their security blobs from MS to boot their Secure versions -- with Intel's trusted Exec-env being ramped up, won't be long before running your own SW on your own box will be a royal pain (think trying to run Suse w/o systemd, then multiply that by 10). I do know Moz keeps pulling the plug on flash As for better sources on the above? * Mozilla blocks all versions of Adobe Flash in Firefox ...www.ghacks.net * Firefox blocks Flash, and Facebook calls for its death - Jul ... money.cnn.com/2015/07/14/.../flash-firefox-facebook/ * Adobe Updates Flash to 18.0.0.209 After Mozilla Blocks All ... news.softpedia.com Just goog for the latest news: Searched on: mozilla pulls flash on new firefox -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org