Comments on: Will The Fake Linus Torvalds Please Stand Up

By: Xavier Sythe

Xavier Sythe — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 06:27:06 +0000

C'mon Tomasz. Chillax, Adobe isn't Microsoft.
Although when they bought Macromedia, all of Macromedia's software products went from “Platinum” to “Garbage” WINE Ratings.
And Adobe is somehow an official member of the Linux Foundation, WHEN THEY DON'T EVEN SUPPORT LINUX. On second thought, maybe you're right to be scared. Suggestion: Expose Adobe on this blog.

By: Rami Taibah

Rami Taibah — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 04:53:47 +0000

Personally, I believe that all closed source is bad. However, Flash is one of the few applications out there that does not have a proper open source implementations (sadly).

In any case, Flash will die no doubt about that. Its just a failed primitive language that found its niche in the widget-ey web. Sooner or later it will die.

By: Rami Taibah

Rami Taibah — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 04:48:36 +0000

Actually Tomasz, you do have a point. But the video on The Linux Foundation was also in .flv format. As much as I abhor Flash right now, and really wish that it dies, Youtube is the most ubiquitous video site uses Flash, and we are locked into it.

I am totally aware of HTML 5 supporting video, however only “modern” browsers support it. Not all of the blog's readers have upgraded yet. So we can't just leave them high and dry can we?

Anyways I am open for suggestion to solve this FLOSS/Video problem in a way that does not trample on the convenience of readers

By: Rami Taibah

Rami Taibah — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 01:53:47 +0000

Personally, I believe that all closed source is bad. However, Flash is one of the few applications out there that does not have a proper open source implementations (sadly).

In any case, Flash will die no doubt about that. Its just a failed primitive language that found its niche in the widget-ey web. Sooner or later it will die.

By: Rami Taibah

Rami Taibah — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 01:48:36 +0000

I am totally aware of HTML 5 supporting video, however only “modern” browsers support it. Not all of the blog's readers have upgraded yet. So we can't just leave them high and dry can we?

Anyways I am open for suggestion to solve this FLOSS/Video problem in a way that does not trample on the convenience of readers

By: krkhan

krkhan — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:28:43 +0000

Tomasz, your concern is valid. However, many open-source solutions exist to play FLV movies (e.g. mplayer/vlc). Not only that, but you also have a *free* alternative (Gnash) for playing Flash movies which isn't quite a clone in terms of features yet but at least works reasonably well for playing Youtube videos.

FSF plays considerable importance on flash video, and it has good reasons for doing that.

By: laurelraven

laurelraven — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:04:04 +0000

Grow up, Tomas…closed source is not necessarily evil. Flash may be, but when the video you want to embed is on YouTube, what choice do you have?

By: laurelraven

laurelraven — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:01:39 +0000

Grow up, Tomas. Closed source is not evil (though Flash is, but if you're embedding from YouTube, you don't have any choice about format)

By: laurelraven

laurelraven — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:58:56 +0000

Grow up, Tomas.

By: Tomasz Slominski

Tomasz Slominski — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:40:03 +0000

I am absolutely outraged by what you have just done. Flash= closed source. Linuxologist+ closed source= not good.