This is the same shallow arguement that was banttered about when "sound_drivers" were at the best barely useable. Anyone that wanted sound support were told to get OSS at a reasonable price of $X and would be blasted if they expected to have perfect sound for free, even though the drivers that were paid for (in the price of the sound card) were available for that other OS. The same counter-arguement was offered when printing and video was the craze and now for plugins that are available as a free download for proprietary OS's only. There will always be new "pay_for _bells_and_whistles" and will be replaced with open source and by the originators of this proprietary crap as ALSA, XINE and video drivers have shown. In time, not supporting all platforms will be as uncommon as M$ only is today. The strides that the linux comunity have advanced in the last twelve months shows that this is no longer a tinker_toy (and never was) but a strong and reliable OS. Is an idividual an "anti-M$ fanatic" if they want for their OS that wich is freely available for other OS's? I hardly think so! I guess we will always be in the presence of those few individuals willing to tote the M$ shield.
Crap-crud.
Its an excellent, cheap piece of s/w that allows you to *use* those closed source plug-ins with your *open* source s/w like Mozilla.
I don't like M$ any more than the next Linux guy, but sometimes the anti-M$ religious fanatics really make me laugh.
charles
JMHO
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