On Aug 21, 2004, at 8:20 AM, sigsegv@rambler.ru wrote:
>>
>> Herb Peyerl wrote:
>>
>> I agree that conceptually flash is wrong and distasteful. But I gave
>> up waiting for the world to route around 'flash' and 'realaudio' while
>> I sat in my NetBSD'd world missing some truly wonderful things.
>>
> I guess that depends on what things you find wonderful. I think Unix 
> has always been a server OS, if somebody is complaining about the lack 
> of flash, games, etc, well you can always switch to Windoze.
>

I haven't played a game in years... There is occasionally some really 
great content that comes out on flash.  I'm tired of missing it.

I still have well over 100 production NetBSD machines acting as 
servers.  I've quite happily switched to OS X for my desktop and now 
lots of things "just work".  For example, I can once again do my 
banking online.

At work I have 5 monitors.  3 of them are NetBSD.  I have browsers on 
them (opera, konqueror and mozilla) and occasionally I
will encounter a website that won't render correctly in any of them.  
It renders just fine on Safari/OSX.    I'm tired of waiting for
the world to catch up to open source (and for open source to catch up 
to the world, in some cases); and I just want to get my
work done.

Be a purist. I applaud you.  Go you!