On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 01:18:47PM +0000, Jon Grant wrote: > There has to be some half-way house at some point during change over.. > it's when someone doesn't plan for a complete change over and sticks > with the intermediary that there is a problem (like FSF support of > Adobe Flash format!)
I wish people would stop mentioning this, it's almost as if you're all tempting me to restart the flamewar! Sooooo tempting... ;) I /will/ just mention that I read somewhere a compelling essay about how the most important thing for the FLOSS movement while it still holds a market share as low as it does (<1%) is compatibility with existing systems, formats and standards. With such a low market penetration, I hardly think we are in the position to start crossing our arms and staunchly refusing to implement free software applications for rubbish formats (because let's be clear, Flash is not non-free per se, just pretty rubbish) simply because they disagree with our higher standards(!) For the FLOSS community to grow we need adoption and for adoption we need interoperability with existing systems and formats. Flash isn't the be-all-and-end-all but it is certainly important (in terms of user-base, which no one can legitimately argue against), no matter how much well all secretly hate it. :) -- Noah Slater <http://bytesexual.org/> "Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results." - R. Stallman _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
