“The Adobe flash plug-in is non-free software, and people should not install it, or suggest installing it, or even tell people it exists.”

— Richard Stallman

On the OpenBSD mailing list (14 December 2007) http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=119762874930534&w=2 2000s

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