On Wed,17.Mar.10, 22:23:24, Stephen Powell wrote: > I can only speak for myself. I am a Linux user and system administrator. > I am not a Debian package maintainer or Debian developer. I *STRONGLY* > prefer free (as in freedom and as in price) software over non-free > software. But I'm just pragmatic enough that I want it to work. > If there was a reliable, stable, free flash plugin, I'd use it. But > there's just too many flash sequences that the free stuff can't handle > properly. At least not yet. If web sites didn't use this stuff, then > we Linux users wouldn't have to worry about it. But they do. And as > much as I hate flash, I am forced to deal with it. And I want something > that works. The "it works" feature is the most important feature to me. > As soon as free software has that characteristic, I use it and dump the > proprietary stuff. But it has to get there first. That's my two cents > worth.
+1 I'm even prepared to test more experimental software on my own hardware (were I can deal with the issues), but wouldn't do this on other machines I maintain (I don't even have physical access to them). One such example will be (I hope) nouveau. I'll (try to) use it as soon as it is co-installable with nvidia-glx[1], but don't have the time and/or expertise to compile it myself from source. [1] currently xserver-xorg-video-nouveau conflicts with nvidia-glx but I need the later for the VDPAU support and the weekly Heroes of Newerth "party" ;) Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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