Below is an exchange between an angry Macromedia shareholder and a Macromedia tech support. It appears that Macromedia promises that Flash 6 for Linux will be available this summer.
While I am on this subject, please allow me to make a few extra comments.
On your drive to push the adoption (or at least the consideration thereof) of LTSP for Hawaii schools, you are doing a very good job. But deep down, I feel that school adms will come out with other excuses if you solve this problem. (The next most common excuse will most likely be, which is indeed quite laughable: do you have a virus protection protocol?) I strongly believe that eventually we will need to consider a legal solution--i.e., taking the school boards to the court. As taxpayers, we should have a voice as to how our tax $$$ is being spent. But I believe you are taking the right first step in focusing your initial effort on private schools.
I am thinking about doing the same thing with Texas, oops, Hawaii, Bar Association. Currently, it has adopted a water-tight Microsoft-only policy (the most outrageous in the country). Don't get me wrong, Microsoft makes very good products, but since our state bar has a compulsory due-paying policy (and I believe we have one of the highest dues among all the states that I am licensed), I don't think the State Bar should be aiding and abetting an illegal monopoly at the expense of its members.
I probably should not have brought the above issue, but my main point is, we need to have a workable turn-key solution for business Linux desktop users before we step up our advocacy. George and I have completed a pretty good first phrase in this regard, and I would welcome more volunteers to help trying out different desktop packages and documenting our user experience.
wayne
Warren Togami wrote:
The #1 roadblock to Linux thin client adoption for many people is the broken Macromedia Flash plugin for Linux. It currently crashes all web browsers when it is used on an exported X display (like with LTSP).Lets hope that Macromedia does actually fix it soon... ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Warren Togami" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2002 9:38 PM Subject: Re: Status of Macromedia Flash petitionWarren, I've heard from the MOzilla guys that Macromedia is now well aware of the problem, and they are working on a fix. No idea when we will actually see it. As for the number, yes, it is very high. The biggest entry was from Hancom.com, the korean company that is making the office product. They have a contract with the entire country of So. Korea, and they say they are putting ltsp in and they estimate 1,000,000 users. So, i'll leave the number the way it is. I have checked on all of the really big numbers, and in a few cases had to remove the bogus entries. Thanks, Jim. On 25 May 2002, Warren Togami wrote:Hi, I am wondering about the status of the Macromedia Flash petition. Has there been any official word from Macromedia, Mozilla/Netscape/AOLTW on this issue? This is by far the single largest roadblock to LTSP adoption when I try to convince Hawaii schools. =( Also, 1.2 million users sounds like a high number. Do you plan on doing any kind of verification on those numbers? I would be concerned that Macromedia wouldn't believe such numbers without further proof. Thank you for your time, Warren Togami [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mid-Pacific Linux Users Group http://www.mplug.org_______________________________________________ LUAU mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/luau
