Flash instructions updated

[Lawrence E. Graves]

On Sun, 2009-05-24 at 07:36 -0600, Christopher A. Williams wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-05-24 at 09:29 +0200, Kåre Fiedler Christiansen wrote:
> 
> > Anyway, you are hardly being constructive. Do you seriously suggest
> > that the page describing how to use the Adobe flash plugin is better
> > if you omit how to make a certain feature of it work? Currently you
> > will simply get distorted images if you try to use the feature, and it
> > will reflect on Fedora as if Fedora doesn't support webcams properly.
> 
> Indeed!
> 
> In fact, this entire thread is one hornet's nest that I truly regret
> having somehow kicked over. Believe me when I say that was _never_ my
> intent.
> 
> By the by, I never got to answer Paul's question of how he could have
> put this better with respect to "people who care about software
> freedom", as it appeared. The interesting part is, if you read the posts
> carefully, we're in agreement about the values, but just have a slight
> difference of opinion in in how they are best expressed. And even then,
> there was room for discussion and compromise. I would have used
> something like this to make the point:
> 
>         The page has been updated to include that 1) Flash is not Free
>         Software (although it may be available free of charge), and 2)
>         that there are Free and Open Source software alternatives to
>         Flash which may be adequate for an individual user's needs.
>         Making this annotation is in keeping with Fedora's values of
>         promoting and encouraging the use of Free and Open Source
>         software.
> 
> I think this makes the same point, but does so in a way that better
> avoids the "slight" that I and a couple of others detected in the
> language.
> 
> OK - moving on now. Hopefully others will as well! There a release that
> still needs a few small kinks knocked out and we don't need to be
> distracted.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
> --
> =============================
> "You see things as they are and ask, 'Why?'
> I dream things as they never were and ask, 'Why not?'"
> 
> -- George Bernard Shaw
> 
Thanks for your effort to end this unneeded war over opinions.  I agree
this energy could be used elsewhere.  Let us move on to bigger and
better things.
> 
> 
> 
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Lawrence E. Graves <lgraves at risingstarmbc.com>