Les Mikesell wrote:
> I think you are shooting yourself in the foot here. It's one
> thing to demand a free Linux download for 1% of the market
> but now you want to make that a bunch of different versions,
> each with their own quirks (AMD doesn't make the only
> 64 bit processor).
To be honest, I run 64 bit and a 64 bit browser because I *don't care*
about Macromedia (or the other closed-source plugins). I already
consider their products to add so little of value and (especially in the
case of Flash) sufficient annoyance that I wouldn't install them even if
they did port to AMD64.
Besides, I place quite a lot of value on the old vision of the Internet
as being cross-platform, non-vendor specific, and standards based. Until
"at least two independent and interoperable implementations from
different code bases have been developed" (RFC2026 section 4.1.2, part
of the criteria for an Internet Standard), in my book Flash does not
count as part of the Internet.
James.
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