[OpenIndiana-discuss] Σχετ: FlashPlayer 23 NPAPI for Linux comeback

[Мартин Бохниг]

Not everybody is in a position where he needs to watch such "sites".
News: And if you want to watch real news, covering real events rather than fairy tales, and even in not such a biased distorted manner as the BBC war propaganda machine you mentioned, you still need flash.

Flash is also still needed for learning wonderful languages, such as in my case Russian for commercial study software I bought and use.
The example you provided is describing a scenario where some high-security-area admin doesn't even know how to recompile Firefox with plugins disabled for the user dir ~/.mozilla/plugins folder.

To some it up: Much hot air with no substance.
Other than that you throw all who are speaking out for flash into some XXX corner.

And once again: 

> A server OS is probably more likely to be a sensible place to have flash

Solaris is a *general* purpose OS.
While Illumos is not an OS but a kernel with system libs, as they define it themselves.
There is no mention of it being a "Server OS", neither on illumos.org nor on wikipedia:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illumos

One of the most prominent places where I need flash is my.mail.ru, when uploading content to a social media platform when communicating with my friends
.
And those users that you described can still watch porn on their smartphone, even if working in your "secure environment" where the "lack of a feature" gets praised as "feature" (somehow this reminds me of July/August).

So - wtf?


best regards,
%martin bochnig


>Четверг,  8 сентября 2016, 18:11 UTC от Peter Tribble <peter.tribble at gmail.com>:
>
>On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 6:32 AM, Apostolos Syropoulos via
>openindiana-discuss < openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org > wrote:
>
>> <sarcasm>we do not need flash plugins. This is a server OS </sarcasm>
>>
>
>A server OS is probably more likely to be a sensible place to have flash,
>as it
>may be properly secured, and may be configured to limit you to accessing
>only
>the business-critical sites you need to get the job done rather than
>leaving you
>open to the whole unsavoury internet. Not having flash is, in most cases, a
>feature not a bug, and has been for a very long time.
>
>One of the longer-standing irritations I've had with losing flash is that
>the BBC
>relied on it. Now at least they've moved iPlayer to HTML5 so that works
>fine in
>Firefox on illumos without flash.
>
>-- 
>-Peter Tribble
>http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ -  http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
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