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Date:      Sat, 3 Oct 2009 06:28:29 +0100
From:      "Lucian @ lastdot.org" <lucian@lastdot.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Voting for a native i386/amd64 flash player
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In-Reply-To: <20091003045640.GA28502@guilt.hydra>
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On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 5:56 AM, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 08:15:07PM -0500, J Sisson wrote:
>>
>> And if enough people petition Microsoft, we can get them to release Wind=
ows
>> 7 source under the GPL.
>>
>> Reality called...your request to ignore it was denied.
>
> Actually, we *could*. =A0The problem is the definition of "enough". =A0I'=
m
> sure that if you got 100% of the Windows users in the world to do so,
> Microsoft top brass would be hard-pressed to avoid acquiescing.
> Meanwhile, I'm sure that if you got 1% to do so, it would raise some
> eyebrows at Microsoft, but utterly fail to get MS executives to put a
> moment's thought into making that kind of licensing change, except
> perhaps to laugh at it. =A0The problem is figuring out the exact threshol=
d,
> somewhere between 1% and 100%.
>
> In other words, to quote an old off-color joke:
>
> =A0 =A0"We've already established you're a prostitute, my dear. =A0Now we=
're
> =A0 =A0just haggling over the price."
>
> --
> Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
>

Better pray for Theora's mass adoption on streaming sites :-)



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