"Dave Crossland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I thought we established there isn't anything better [than Flash] for web > multimedia. Show me URLs of better technology :-)
I'm not sure we've established what "better" means here, let alone whether Flash is the best. [...] > Being unable to view Active X wrapped media is not a "Top 5" reason to > not switch to GNU+Linux or to install proprietary software on > GNU+Linux. So I doubt it. But if it was as much of a social problem, > I'd expect so. What Top 5 list is this referring to? [...] > Calling the OS GNU/Linux or GNU+Linux is a simple way to do that which > anyone can do and takes only a few seconds each day. While it's (relatively) easy to change one's own behaviour, changing existing agreements like user group names is much harder. It involves compromise and I think it was such compromises that gave us FOSS and FLOSS. However, there seems to be no acceptable compromise for the OS and user group names yet: both Local User Group and Linux+GNU User Group (to preserve the built LUG branding) have been rejected. Also, don't underestimate the animal magic. Tux is far cuter than the most common GNUs. It's a bit surprising that the GNU project seems to have switched to the bold alternative GNU (which is quite similar to the previous one, enough so that http://www.gnu.org/graphics/agnuhead.html still suggests it is the old head on the home page and I doubt many people will notice it) instead of one of the more cuddly 3D ones (say Georg Bahlon's, or the meditating GNU). Regards, -- MJ Ray http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html tel:+44-844-4437-237 - Webmaster-developer, statistician, sysadmin, online shop builder, consumer and workers co-operative member http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ - Writing on koha, debian, sat TV, Kewstoke http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
