[Fwd: Re: How long will 64bit Ubuntu users have to wait?]

[Kilz _]

>From: Toby Smithe <toby.smithe at gmail.com>
>To: ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
>Subject: [Fwd: Re: How long will 64bit Ubuntu users have to wait?]
>Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 16:58:58 +0100
>
>Damn; Forgot to do reply to all.
>
>Kilz, that is what I just (thought I had) sent out.



>From: Toby Smithe <toby.smithe at gmail.com>
>To: Alex Jones <alex at weej.com>
>Subject: Re: How long will 64bit Ubuntu users have to wait?
>Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 16:03:46 +0100
>On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 15:56 +0100, Alex Jones wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I am not very qualified to comment on this subject, but it seems that
> > your main beef is with Firefox plugins (Flash?) and multimedia codecs
> > (WMV?).
> >
> > Both of the "best" implementations of these plugins/codecs are *closed
> > source* and *unsupported*.
> >
> > It is simply out of our hands. Please support open, free codecs.
>
>I don't think that this was the solution he was looking for. He may be
>locked into using those formats for reasons beyond your control.
>However, he is also a bit miffed that support for the closed source
>formats is available for the 32-bit edition, and wonders why this is so.
>His beef is not with the fact that they are closed, this is an indirect
>irritation, but rather with the lack of multiarch support that is
>available in other distributions and the processor that they run on.
>There could be support for running 32-bit apps easily under the 64-bit
>OS, never mind whether they are closed or not. If they work for x86-32,
>then they'll also work under x86-64 using multiarch. No recompilation is
>needed.
>

Thank you. This is exacly my point. People keep pointing out its a closed 
format. Well I admit flash. But Firefox is avilable as 32bit and can be run 
on 64bit with minimum work. Heck if I can do it I know someone else can. 
Poinint out that the flash plugin is closed so you dont want to provide a 
32bit Firefox is flawed reasoning to me. I could see if you didnt want to 
repackage flash. But that could be easly force installed. The main thing is 
the browser isnt there, and its not closed source.

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