On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 16:02, Marcus Meissner <meissner@suse.de> wrote:
Unnecessary Fear Mongering ...
How do you figure? All I did was link the Adobe Blog... and quote from the blog... which clearly states no Flash on Linux past 11.2 unless you use Chrome. That's not fear mongering, that's just stating what is happening isn't it? Saying it's "Unnecessary Fear Mongering" is like sticking your fingers in your ears and saying la la la.
Adobe will continue to provide security updates to non-Pepper distributions of Flash Player 11.2 on Linux for five years from its release.
With the 11.2 release targeted for this year we still have 5 (FIVE) years of seeing the options.
Lets hope Flash is finally dead then.
Five years is not that long (heck, that was what... openSUSE 10.3? and we still have loads of users here still using that release).. five years go by very quickly... well, too quickly for my liking, but I think it's a symptom of getting older :-P The reality is, Flash won't be dead in five years... there will still be loads of websites that use it. How many other technologies are out there that we wish would die, but never seem to go away.. like IE6-only webcontent in corporate intranets. :-( I hope alternatives like Gnash and Lightbox will be up to the task, or the popular browser of the day will support Pepper (or whatever it morphs into). C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org