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Or a way to make users even more die-hard Firefox users. I don't understand how this is extremely idealistic. This is an excellent way to show how software pate

• axod 17y ago
  Sure, I'm agreed software patents are bad. But average users just want stuff to work. Remember those music players that didn't play mp3 files so they didn't have to pay a few cent royalty? No me either, but they existed for a time. Everyone wanted to play mp3 files, so the players that could play them won out.
  • halo 17y ago
    >Sure, I'm agreed software patents are bad. But average users just want stuff to work. Right. Yet you've said before that you'll get rid of your iPhone if "they put Flash on it". How do you reconcile your position that "average users just want stuff to work" against being so vehemontly against Flash on the iPhone?
    • axod 17y ago
      ? Flash is amongst the worst examples of 'stuff that works'. Flash doesn't work. It pegs your CPU at 100%, crashes, and generally ends up in mess. IF they can get flash to work, and not crash, and not eat battery, and not peg CPU, then I'd probably welcome it. But they haven't managed to do that in the last 10 years with the standard versions of flash, so I think it's extremely unlikely they'd manage it on slimmed down hardware like the iPhone.
• bad_user 17y ago
  And how is that working in other areas? How many Linux desktop-users do you know? And out of those, how many use "pure" distributions, like gNewSense?