Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

Richard Zidlicky rz at linux-m68k.org
Thu Nov 18 12:39:50 UTC 2010


On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 09:44:31PM +0100, Magnus Glantz wrote:
>

> Because a large part of the Fedora users, uses the flash plugin from  
> Adobe, and if it does not work, they will go off and find a distribution  
> where it does work. With less people using Fedora, the project becomes  
> less successful, as less people will be contributing.
> For me it's natural that we should care about the end-user experience of  
> Fedora, even if that does include us caring about application outside of  
> the Fedora owned repositories.

after the experience that 90% of bugs filled against free software get closed 
after the lifetime of a distribution (my subjective estimate) without anyone 
ever looking at them I am wondering if we should abandon free software at all.

Richard


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