From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PQqW5-0007CB-UP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 00:07:18 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0C6CAE0B17 for ; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 00:07:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from oproxy1-pub.bluehost.com (oproxy1-pub.bluehost.com [66.147.249.253]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 40B48E09F6 for ; Thu, 9 Dec 2010 23:52:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 31052 invoked by uid 0); 9 Dec 2010 23:52:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box443.bluehost.com) (69.89.31.243) by oproxy1.bluehost.com.bluehost.com with SMTP; 9 Dec 2010 23:52:20 -0000 Received: from c-66-41-30-59.hsd1.mn.comcast.net ([66.41.30.59] helo=crud.chemoelectric.org) by box443.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQqHc-0002kp-G5 for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 16:52:20 -0700 Received: by crud.chemoelectric.org (Postfix, from userid 1501) id D12C11D094; Thu, 9 Dec 2010 17:52:18 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 17:52:18 -0600 From: Barry Schwartz To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Firefox/Firefox-bin & Flash Message-ID: <20101209235218.GA20311@crud.chemoelectric.org> References: <20101209172220.8215dc81.frank.peters@comcast.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20101209172220.8215dc81.frank.peters@comcast.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Identified-User: {1474:box443.bluehost.com:crudfact:crudfactory.com} {sentby:smtp auth 66.41.30.59 authed with crudfactory@crudfactory.com} X-Archives-Salt: d2d00166-b7aa-4826-a999-0ee6526136ea X-Archives-Hash: cacbc20499604e2a395e0c1f35e8e639 Frank Peters skribis: > Unless I am missing some crucial information, this whole 32 to 64-bit > fiasco should have ended years ago. We managed to build an atomic > bomb (Manhattan Project) from scratch in less than 3 years, but > a 64-bit Flash (as well as other software) probably won't be finalized > before an entire decade has elapsed. That's just it: the one project was a matter of life and death and freedom and slavery for millions, while the other project isn't remarkably important, and is tailored for the benefit of stock investors. Besides, if the OS is supposed to be able to run 32-bit applications and can't then it is broken, and one actually can do something about that, because the OS is almost all free-as-in-freedom software.