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lallysingh
on Oct 6, 2011
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Adobe Flash 11 is now stable for 64-bit Linux
It would be funny --- if it wasn't so tragic --- how much easier to use and manage free software is. Especially considering it's almost all just './configure ; make && make install' at the base level.
I friggin' love pacman.
nodata
on Oct 6, 2011
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That's a good point. If Flash was free software, there wouldn't be a need for a download page - it would be in the repositories already.
rwmj
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And it would have been integrated in browsers directly, and we could have run valgrind on it and fixed all the bugs.
windsurfer
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I worked for Adobe and there are more than 100 licensed libraries and even more patents used in Flash. There's almost no chance it'll be open source.
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I friggin' love pacman.