On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 9:39 PM, Wolfgang Rosenauer
a) download it from adobe yourself b) use something else
are not good enough. If (a) was a real solution, why are we building building a distro at all. (b) is not a solution because there is no 100% replacement for acroread. To the other comment: We are building a distribution out of free software to make it easy for people to start working immediately. acroread is not part of the operating system, it's not OSS, it's not
Am 07.11.2013 14:31, schrieb Per Jessen: maintained which for non-OSS means, it's vulnerable by design and I guess its track record proves that it is highly vulnerable.
More plain explanation: We didn't build an open source distribution to run commerical software. That's, well, at least not the aim for a community project. Commerical software ran before because the company behind it (Adobe) wanted to have it running. It was not because we work hard to have it (of course, still some work done). It's a close-source stuff so basically we totally have no idea of what's inside that black box. It's not even built from source but from binary. So basically, the only difference between the rpm downloaded from Adobe and the one in our repository is just where it's download from. There're no superior bits in our rpm. And you can even take that we had acroread in non-oss before as a side-effect. It's simply because when SUSE Linux made the deal with Adobe, it took us into consideration and made sure the deal covers openSUSE too. or acroread didn't suppose to be here at all. So besically it's not a "take away". I'd better take it as: I used some applications misplaced and doesn't belong to me. Marguerite -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org