Re: [Hampshire] BBC iPlayer Broken With Karmic

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Author: Isaac Close
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] BBC iPlayer Broken With Karmic

--- On Tue, 27/10/09, Philip Stubbs <philip@???> wrote:

> If Google does ever release its own Linux based Google OS,
> surely then
> we will see a better Linux Flash player? I would rather not
> need to
> use flash at all, but if we do need it, then please let us
> have a
> flash player that works as well in Linux as it does in
> Windows. My
> hope is that Google will provide the incentive that Adobe
> needs to
> pull its finger out on this one.
>


Yes, I think your correct. Meanwhile, Microsoft and Apple probably like the fact that flash doesn't work very well on Linux, they may even have some 'interest' in the matter.

Money talks, sadly.

I can only hope the alternatives to flash improve, which i'm sure they will.

Isaac.