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by belorn
3640 days ago
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Silverlight and flash both work on Linux. The youtube experience is today identical on linux, android and windows. Do you think there will be a open-source alternative to each of the new closed source DRM implementations done by different sites? Welcome to the new world where depending on the number of users your system has, some websites will work and others won't. If its worth for the company to develop to your platform, you might be worthy the time. If not, well, thought luck, go out and buy a platform which is supported. Games has had this wonderful (sarcasm) idea of platform exclusives. Publishers could not do that with flash, but with unique DRM platforms for each site, its both convenient and easy. Wonder how well Mozilla and Google can compete in that space with Microsoft, an entity well experience in platform exclusive dealings. |
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> Welcome to the new world where depending on the number of users your system has, some websites will work and others won't. If its worth for the company to develop to your platform, you might be worthy the time. If not, well, thought luck, go out and buy a platform which is supported.
If you're implying that the world wasn't like this before, you're simply wrong. I was unable to give good faith recommendations of Linux systems to people for _years_ because Netflix wouldn't run on them, at a time when Netflix access was important to pretty much everyone I knew. This only really changed after mobile devices became ubiquitous and thus more or less obsoleted the complaint.
Holding up silverlight as an example of a closed source plug-in that works on Linux is a terrible one, given how long it took for that to be the case.