Idea for expanded support of some non-free software

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 03:45:36PM -0500, thully at umich.edu wrote:

> At this point, I'm mostly just requesting that Ubuntu try to ensure that
> these packages work well - and I see this not happening in the case of
> Flash, with the sound server issue.

Macromedia Flash is not supported because its proprietary nature is not in
accord with the goals of the project.  You are requesting that we provide
you with support for software which we have explicitly chosen not to
support.

Proprietary software, by its nature, will (and does) break as free software
changes around it, while free software is adapted.  It is not a good use of
free software developer resources to debate, debug and work around
proprietary software.

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 - mdz