Re: [gNewSense-users] Playing Youtube videos from Totem .

[Jason Self]

On Nov 6, 2009, at 10:26 AM, Dmitry Samoyloff wrote:

> Gnash is a free software and it appears to be the second entry in  
> the FSF list
> of high-priority projects. It is a free replacement of Adobe Flash  
> player and
> it plays videos from YouTube. Watching YouTube videos is not equal to
> supporting proprietary software.

But watching YouTube does mean support supporting the use of  
proprietary patent-encumbered formats, even if the software used to  
view such a format is free. Personally, I agree with Luis Felipe López  
Acevedo. Supporting fully open, non-proprietary, patent-free  
technologies seems like the better stance to take.