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Re: nspluginwrapper and libflashsupport updates for adobe-flash-plugin



On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 11:43:12PM +0000, Ottavio Caruso wrote:
> On 30 October 2015 at 16:59, Swift Griggs <swiftgriggs%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> 
> >   This "new" internet smells less like a lab or an engineering shop and
> > rather a lot more like a corporate suburban strip mall. Fortunately, there
> > is enough bandwidth to spare these days that Luddite curmudgeons like me can
> > still exist in the margins, surviving off discarded crumbs of W3C and other
> > now captured corporate committees.
> 
> True that, but the harsh reality is that this is what "people" want.

I disagree. This is what "marketing people" want, which they then throw at
us. The average person doesn't give a shit, if it's glossy and makes
cute noises, it's a great product. :(

-- 
"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people
who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the 
oppressing." --- Malcolm X


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