Personally I know we cannot scrap it even if we would want it.
always people would find a way to install it from stupidity, fear of
change or need.
All we can do is to inform the users that using it is bad... due to
security issue...
the boogie man can come and see what porn they are using...
I may suggest to have a wiki page on life without flash... or how to
stay protected when using it.
install a flash blocker and load only the crap you really need.
this is really a problem that a distro cannot solve.
Alin
On 7 April 2012 08:05, Wolfgang Rosenauer
Am 07.04.2012 03:36, schrieb Bryen M Yunashko:
Now back to the main topic of this thread...
Actually I prepared a long post on-topic of this thread but threw it away as I noticed that everything has been said already. I try to sum up what I understood now.
I've seen no single convincing argument why it's better for openSUSE and our users to drop the Flash plugin now. Graham's proposal had no real argument for it besides things like - Adobe abandoned it (partly true) - Flash is crap (always has been true) - Flash is a security mess (always has been true) (but it's a 3rd-party vendor promising security updates for another 5 years) - Apple dropped it already which are no arguments why we should drop it at this moment IMHO.
It's absolutely unrealistic that our decision will have any impact on the web so it's not even a political decision to force the web to do something (as opposed to Apple's weight). Flash will die over the next years. Let's get rid of it when it's time but not now.
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