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[News] Adobe's Mistake with Flash Repeats the MP3 Sins

Adobe's Flash developers need to learn from Saudi Arabia

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| Its choice of a proprietary video compression codec makes a free
| replacement for Flash not only desirable, but necessary -- and I
| mean for business reasons, not just because of software ideology.
| If Adobe's management had done even a little cursory reading about 
| the history of the oil business and OPEC, its Flash product line
| would not be heading for the ripe, green pickle that is inevitably
| going to hit it in the face within the next few years.
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http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/03/19/1719216


Related:

Why I don't think open source Flash is necessary

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| Ted Leung has a thought provoking post titled "Adobe wants to be
| the Microsoft of the web". From what I've been able to gather, Ted 
| is a big open source advocate, so obviously he has some strong
| feelings about a platform that seems to be growing.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Stewart/?p=298


Linux video - but for whom?

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| Builder AU, the official media organ for the Australian Linux
| conference, which is underway in Sydney, has released video clips
| of Linux creator Linus Torvalds talking about kernel development.
| 
| But GNU/Linux users, the intended target audience, are finding it
| difficult to view the same.
| 
| The videos apparently need to be viewed using version 8 of the
| proprietary Macromedia Flash player or above. Fact is there has
| never been a Flash 8 for GNU/Linux. After 7, Macromedia chose to
| release version 9 - on January 16, six months after it was released for 
| Windows.
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http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/8687/1090/

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