Dropping HAL will break flash player DRM support

[mrdrewed]

I saw this conversation on the dev mailing list about dropping HAL. This will break DRM support for Flash player. See for example:

http://forums.adobe.com/message/4574892

Is any thought given to such issues in this decision? This will be a big inconvenience to some users, myself included.

Update: the developers mailing link is here:

https://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia ... 17430.html

[doktor5000]

Well, on the other hand, Adobe dropped support for linux. Frankly asked, why should we still support them, inconvenience or not? Or why should we support DRM or other things which cripple your freedom?

[mrdrewed]

Sorry, but not being able to watch videos that I payed for is what I would consider crippled freedom.

Adobe has committed to five years of support for Flash 11.2 last I heard. Hopefully by then it won't be needed.

[wobo]

Non-technical arguments:

mrdrewed: You have a point there. Surely Mageia does not have to support DRM or even such non-free software at all. But OTOH it should not implement changes which breaks the usage of such software - moreso if it is a very popular software which has been acknowledged by Mageia (even by offering a packaged script in the official repos) and is used by a majority of users.
If Adobe will really support the current Linux version for another couple of years even the reason "Unsupported by manufacturer" is void.

[wilcal]

Adobe has committed to five years of support for Flash 11.2 last I heard. Hopefully by then it won't be needed.

That gives us all a time frame to do something else
other then Flash. Finally an end game for Flash.