I'm going to throw in my 2 cents into this long and tedious thread.  

I think commercial/proprietary is generally bad, but often times very
useful.  Just like Realplayer, Flash is widely used and accepted.  As
a webdesigner, I think (even though Flash is not open source) you can
do some pretty amazing stuff with Flash.  Realplayer has many
alternatives now (mplayer, helix), so it doesn't make much sense to
start a petition for a Realplayer NetBSD port.  But there are no
alternatives for Flash.  Maybe in the future, when someone makes an
open source application that plays flash-like content, we can dump the
commercial stuff.  Until then, I think it's a good idea to start this
petition.

I mean, it can't hurt if NetBSD supports an additional format (no
matter how evil it is) can it?



On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 00:36:19 +0000, Herb Peyerl <hpeyerl@beer.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 05:22:11PM -0700, Ben Collver wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 07:34:09AM -0600, Herb Peyerl wrote:
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > ... ; and I just want to get my work done.
> > >
> > > Be a purist. I applaud you.  Go you!
> >
> > viewing flash content == getting work done?
> 
> 
> Well, I guess if you want to surgically extract the content of my message
> to make it say something completely different and it makes you happy, then
> go ahead.
> 
> 
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