On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 06:04:25PM +0100, Alex Hudson wrote: > David Gerard wrote: > > Indeed. However, this issue is not in fact about Apple, it's about the > > ASA. FSFE may (or may not) be in a position to advocate against the > > decision that Flash is required to asdvertise "full internet" in the > > UK. > > > > In terms of "fair descriptions of goods", surely Flash is a necessity? > > If we set aside the issue of free or non-free software for a moment, the > number of sites which require Flash to work is sufficiently large that I > would consider a system which couldn't access them to offer > less-than-full access. > > This is just about being honest with consumers, surely?
If it's about being honest with consumers, than they should just say: "won't play flash content since it's a proprietary format we don't support" I seldom notice that I don't have flash support installed anyway, thanks to wonderful tools like NoScript, and most of the times I notice, it's some moronic joke site someplace I don't even care to remember. Rui -- You are what you see. Today is Prickle-Prickle, the 20th day of Bureaucracy in the YOLD 3174 + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi + So let's do it...? _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
