Adobe and Google Partnering for Flash Player on Linux

[Paul Allen Newell]

On 2/23/2012 2:30 PM, jdow wrote:
> On 2012/02/23 12:01, Joe Zeff wrote:
>> On 02/23/2012 10:20 AM, Paul Allen Newell wrote:
>>> To me, that's pretty much a case of being off Windows except when its
>>> the right tool.
>>
>> Not everybody *can* be 100% Windows free. My post was to show that 
>> under the
>> right circumstances it's not only possible, it's easy. And, as far as 
>> Totem
>> goes, there are other media programs that might work. Have you tried 
>> them?
>
> Some programs will never appear on Open Source platforms, Joe. There 
> are no
> talented programmers interested in putting the programs on Open Source 
> with
> no income while they do it. Nobody is willing to pay the programmers 
> to move
> the programs to Open Source. These are typically niche market 
> programs. They
> often have a long Windows or Apple legacy, though. And they are the bread
> and butter for the people who distribute them. So being 100% windows 
> or Apple
> free is a forlorn hope if you want to include "everybody". (And what's 
> this
> nonsense of only worrying about Windows free? Apple is "good guys", hunh?
> Let's hear people giving Apple equal time to Windows for their hatred.)
>
> {^_-}

I agree with this.

Paul