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| From | Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: "A Modest Proposal" - was [Re: flash? [OT]] |
| Date | 2016-03-15 16:00 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <rcYBY-3qp-27@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
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On 3/15/2016 9:09 AM, deloptes wrote:
> Richard Owlett wrote:
>
>> On 3/15/2016 3:57 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
>> [snip]
>>>
>>> The BBC isn't going to take a blind bit of notice if Brian and I don't
>>> watch
>>> Happy Valley. It really isn't going to care. It has its licence money.
>>>
>>> Even Channel 4, which relies on advertising for its revenue, is totally
>>> indifferent to the fact that Linux users can't watch it on a computer.
>>> Well,
>>> Brian probably can. But he hasn't let the rest of us into the secret.
>>> [snip]
>>
>> Have any that think flash is inferior actually written a polite
>> letter {preferably the snail mail variety] to a senior executive
>> (President, CEO, COO, etc) of the content provider?
>
> When I was not able to watch the national channel with flash player under
> linux, few days later they wrote back, that the problem was fixed and
> indeed since then it is working fine.
>
> The transition to HTML5 will take years - be patient and pray ;-)
>
> regards
>
I don't know current statistics, but in the pre-WEB era one
letter written indicated that 100 or more others had the same
problem. As to "flash" etc, I've yet to find a site that actually
needed it to give me relevant content. YMMV ;/
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