On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 14:36 +0000, Dave Page wrote: > On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 02:12:37PM +0000, Noah Slater wrote: > > The FSF's support of Flash is a very clever strategic position and > > absolutely essential if we are to get regular users to make the switch > > to a free operating system. > > "are we working for freedom, or have we replaced that goal with the > shallow goal of popularity?" - rms, http://www.a42.com/node/50
I think the point is more subtle than that; obviously, rms isn't saying that the end goal of having free software be wildly popular and in broad usage is "shallow" :o) > I'm not saying that Gnash is a bad thing, or that it should be scrapped > (especially since as free software it has the potential to do much more > than just support the Flash format), but I do think that the FSF should > be making open format support a priority project rather than Gnash. As I mentioned before, I think the format is a technicality. I do think the FSF should make a priority of supporting content-creation software, because no-one will switch to a different format if the tools aren't there. I have no idea who - if anyone - is in any way well placed to develop such software, though. Cheers, Alex. _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
