Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (761 mails)

[Graham Anderson <graham@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 06 Apr 2012 14:29:35 Per Jessen wrote:
> Graham Anderson wrote:
> > On Friday 06 Apr 2012 12:44:14 Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
> > > I agree that we cannot kill the Flash plugin right now as much as I
> > > wanted it to happen. It makes me angry how much Adobe pisses off
> > > Linux users and non-Chrome users at the moment as this makes Linux
> > > look like a even worse desktop system and especially to you as a
> > > "Mozilla guy" this will most likely decrease Firefox and SeaMonkey
> > > usage on Linux even more as people have to switch to Chrome if they
> > > want proper Flash support.
> >
> > I really disagrree with this. There should be no pandering to
> > incumbent and deprecated technologies. The sentiment "its bad but we
> > have to put up with it" makes my skin crawl. Flash was only tolerated
> > because it was the easiest way to get a video decoder into the
> > browser. That has changed.
> >
> > Linux is moving most markets right now, except the desktop, desktop
> > Linux is not in the same league as server, mobile and embeded. There
> > will be nothing to gain from shackeling our desktops to such things as
> > Flash (which everyone including Adobe are leaving behind anyway).
> >
> > Really, we win _nothing_ by continuing to support flash.
>
> That is no doubt correct, but we might very well _lose_ a lot (of
> users).

Do you mean in the sense of "no flash will use something else" or "these guys 
don't support flash, wtf not going to use that?" or something else?

I ask because one of the platforms that users love and rant about doesn't use 
flash as a matter of its engineering policy.