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by mapleoin 4960 days ago
What does the free OS mean?
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Netflix only functions on desktop operating systems with Silverlight, a Microsoft plugin for some browsers that only is supported on modern OS X versions and Windows. Additionally, there is a native Android and iOS version. People who want to watch it on Linux, are forced to something extremely impractical like emulate Android - it is a closed system.
This proposal is really important to cross platform vendor agnostic support:

http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/html-media/raw-file/tip/encrypted-medi...

The free operating systems?
Sorry for being melodramatic. I meant Linux :D. And evinugur has listed exactly what my problem with Netflix is.