[Ubuntu-be] Nieuw lid.

[Marc Portier]

Toni Van Remortel wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 21:35 +0200, Bram Biesbrouck wrote:
>> Will flash 9 be available for these systems?
> 
> Actually, that should not be the question. Flash might be an open
> standard to use, most times you are bound to Macromedia to be able to
> use it on the client side.
> As you tend to provide an open source solution, please follow your own
> way of thinking, and use a real open standard that doesn't depend on any
> manufacturer.
> 
> Flash might be the easiest way to solve your problem, but it certainly
> doesn't fit in the open source way of thinking.
> Sad, but true.
> 
> Regards,


uhuh,

regarding this discussion about what 'The Question' is, I couldn't help
thinking about what president Kennedy once said:

"don't ask what America can do for you, but what you can do for America"



which easily brings me to other (more pragmatic) aspects of life that
have been attributed to the 'The Open Source Way" as well

- doing the simpliest thing that will possibly work, and no simpler
- timtowdi
- if you have an itch: scratch it
- ...


and to me the question at hand is equally valid and interesting as e.g.
- will cygnus run well on windows vista?
- will open-office keep handling future ms documents coirrectly?


just to be clear, I'm completely aligning with your statements 'in
principle' However I just as easily align with the chosen 'tactics' for
targeting flash (put differently: no itch with that over here)



-marc= (who gets nervous when open source is claimed to be a (more)
dogmatic and/or moral Way of Anything. IMHO the movement has more then
enough merits on the level of honest common sense, simple pragmatics and
pure effectiveness that it can do well without the various attempts at
replacing Religion :-)  Let it not close our eyes to reality...)
-- 
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