Fedora Desktop future- RedHat moves

[max]

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 23:36 -0400, max bianco wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 10:42 PM, Les <hlhowell at pacbell.net> wrote:
>>>  On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 13:45 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
>>>  >   Why should I be interested in a distribution that makes it
>>>  > difficult
>>>  > for me to make my own choices about whether a license is acceptable
>>>  > or
>>>  > not? I don't have a problem with downloading my own copy of any
>>>  > particular code from any particular place under any conditions that I
>>>  > find acceptable.
>>>  But that is the problem.  The folks with proprietary want to limit your
>>>  use to only the systems they have chosen to support, thus you can end up
>>>  with instruments or software that you have purchased that will not run
>>>  when the OS changes.  Furthermore their licenses forbid you from reverse
>>>  engineering the code to figure out how to make it work some where else,
>>>  and the owner of the proprietary OS won't let you do any reverse
>>>  engineering legally to figure out how to interface to the software or
>>>  hardware he/she/it chooses to no longer support.  Thus you are obsoleted
>>>  with no legal recourse.  Those lovely sites where you download such
>>>  utilities are often legally not clean to use either, depending upon the
>>>  laws that the various entities have seen fit to pass.  Finally your own
>>>  documents, code and other encoded data may be unaccessable to you
>>>  either, because the formatting, encoding, encryption or compression may
>>>  be proprietary and non disclosed with the attendant no reverse
>>>  engineering clauses, leaving you without access even to your own
>>>  material.
>>>
>>>  That is why these licenses, and the subject of libre or free software is
>>>  important.
>>>
>>>  Regards,
>>>  Les H
>>>
>>>
>> Adobe Flash is something I can't for the life of me figure out why
>> anyone would use. You can't kill the adds like you can with gnash and
>> it leaves a gaping security hole in everything it touches.
> 
> If you mean Firefox then Flashblock, Adblock and Noscript are all
> effective. I use all three.
> 
> poc
> 
Yes I have at one time or another tried and used them all but it strikes 
me as wrong to have run software A to keep software B from bothering me. 
Why install Flash if your going to block it anyway?

Max