On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 07:06 +0930, Tim wrote: > On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 11:23 -0700, Hugh Caley wrote: > > Proprietary is here; we need to deal with it. > > Yes, but because of its nature, we only have few ways to "deal with it". > If we're lucky, it works. If we're not, it doesn't, and we probably > can't do anything about it (we can only do workarounds if we know how to > use it, even if we don't know how it works, and some things just don't > give you all the information you need). If we're more unlucky, we can't > do a damn thing about it. > > > Now, my own point is that a single Linux user has about zip power to > > influence Adobe. I think Redhat and to a lesser extent the Mozilla > > organization has a lot more. There should be direct talks between > > these commercial operations about problems like these, and if there > > have been, it'd be nice to know. > > I wouldn't be surprised if Redhat, et al, have tried to deal with closed > source companies. I also wouldn't be surprised if they don't have a > great deal of luck, either. > > > > Also, Firefox allows a single bad plugin to make the brower unusable. > > Maybe it shouldn't do that? Seems to me there's a legitimate argument > > to be made there. > > Yes, though you're chatting to the wrong people, now. That's a Firefox > issue, and you'd need to take it up with them. > > Have a look at Google's browser. Or, since it's not for Linux, have a > look at what they say about their browser: Tabs run as independent > processes. One can't crash the other. You can kill one without > stuffing up the others, etc. From: http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/linux.html?hl=en Google Chrome for Linux is in development and a team of engineers is working hard to bring it to you as soon as possible. Please enter your email address below and we'll let you know when it's released. Nataraj > > -- > [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r > 2.6.27.21-78.2.41.fc9.i686 > > Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I > read messages from the public lists. > > > -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
