Petition against EU streaming service Linux ban

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DeanLinkous · #16 Post by **DeanLinkous** » 2007-01-05 05:51

fake which version of flash you have.....
some of those sites that require flash8 or higher....really do not need flash 8 or higher....some do though.....

ajdlinux · #17 Post by **ajdlinux** » 2007-01-05 22:32

My experience is that more often than not the Flash animations on most pages are advertisements. Flash on my rather old 2002-ish Linux PC is really slow and takes up a lot of resources. And of course on top of that it is proprietary.

I haven't encountered a site where I've *really* needed Flash for quite a while now.

thamarok · #18 Post by **thamarok** » 2007-01-05 23:04

ajdlinux wrote:My experience is that more often than not the Flash animations on most pages are advertisements. Flash on my rather old 2002-ish Linux PC is really slow and takes up a lot of resources. And of course on top of that it is proprietary.

I haven't encountered a site where I've *really* needed Flash for quite a while now.

+1!

Linux has the right to have the same services as Windows and Mac OS X!
Come with me and strike until Blizzard ports World of Warcraft to Linux also!

(But since WoW is available for Mac OS X, an official port would be quite positive)

ajdlinux · #19 Post by **ajdlinux** » 2007-01-05 23:14

thamarok wrote: Linux has the right to have the same services as Windows and Mac OS X!
Come with me and strike until Blizzard ports World of Warcraft to Linux also!

Wonder if they would port the spyware over with it...

Grifter · #20 Post by **Grifter** » 2007-01-06 03:43

thamarok wrote:Linux has the right to have the same services as Windows and Mac OS X!
Come with me and strike until Blizzard ports World of Warcraft to Linux also!

(But since WoW is available for Mac OS X, an official port would be quite positive)

Like I told you in this thread, blizzard has a linux native client for world of warcraft, they just won't release it

thamarok · #21 Post by **thamarok** » 2007-01-06 11:29

Grifter wrote:
thamarok wrote:Linux has the right to have the same services as Windows and Mac OS X!
Come with me and strike until Blizzard ports World of Warcraft to Linux also!

(But since WoW is available for Mac OS X, an official port would be quite positive)
Like I told you in this thread, blizzard has a linux native client for world of warcraft, they just won't release it

Actually I meant that Blizzard should release it, but since they are n00bs, nothing to hope

Lavene · #22 Post by **Lavene** » 2007-01-06 12:47

ajdlinux wrote:My experience is that more often than not the Flash animations on most pages are advertisements. Flash on my rather old 2002-ish Linux PC is really slow and takes up a lot of resources. And of course on top of that it is proprietary.

I haven't encountered a site where I've *really* needed Flash for quite a while now.

Flash is probably the most abused technology out there. I have flashblock installed because I can't stand the flashing, bright, intrusive ads. The only reason I have flash installed at all is to watch the occasional video. It can go days between each time I unblock a flash animation...

thamarok wrote:Linux has the right to have the same services as Windows and Mac OS X!

I agree. I hate to have to manually install malicious software, I want the viruses to autoinstall!

Tina

kinematic · #23 Post by **kinematic** » 2007-01-07 18:53

it seems the petition is going well.....more than 14000 people have signed it.

_FOCUS_ · #24 Post by **_FOCUS_** » 2007-01-29 07:02

thamarok wrote:I signed in the petition, but I was thinking that YouTube videos work in Linux, so couldn't that whatever council make the streaming videos in Flash using the FLV codec?

You are right I downloaded some video from youtube and I can watch them with totem or vlc player. But no voice