Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (761 mails)

[Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Graham Anderson wrote:

> On Friday 06 Apr 2012 08:32:58 Bruno Friedmann wrote:
> > Unfortunately, a big number of users, need this infamous plugin to
> > work. And again, no luck to have a free alternative.
> >
> > In a few years ~2015/2016 html5/css3 will have replace it at 98% in
> > popular website and perhaps 50% of application developed with flash
> > will have change their technology.
>
> Let the plugin live in some external repo. If users would like to use
> it they can just use their own good judgement ;) and install it from
> the community repo.
>
> Frankly flash plugin is an abomnination and now we understand that
> it's no longer supported by Adobe it's the perfect time to drop it.
>
> Flash plugin is buggy, full of security holes, inefficient and
> bloated. Lets treat it like we should treat any old unsupported
> software - remove it from the distro.

I think we should think about the users first.  It is unfortunate that
Adobe doesn't want to do that, but we don't have to follow right away. 



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Per Jessen, Zürich (8.2°C)

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