On 2012/02/23 09:52 (GMT-0500) Brian K. White composed:
Adobe actively pushed and sold flash to the web at large for years.
Yes
Web site designers used it because Adobe convinced them it was great.
Yes
Adobe only made the consumption part free to make it possible to sell the hell out of the creation part.
Yes
It IS rather their obligation not to break all the bezillion web sites made out of the product they sold to all the bezillion developers and indirectly to all the bezillion little mom& pop garages, bake shops, restaurants, barber shops, schools, etc etc etc who paid what was for them a major investment to have a web site made at all.
Not the way I see it. Several times a year Adobe provides newer releases, maybe a dozen or more. The feature set changes. Sites say your version is too old, you need to download the latest. If you don't, what used to work doesn't, because part of the Adobe creation pitch is to use the newest features ASAP, and that's what sites do, updating their pages so only the latest Flash version works, while FOSS Flash substitutes also fail. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org