It will be interesting to see how Canonical handles this. They didn't handle
the Oracle debacle very well when Oracle killed more favourable distribution
terms for the non-free version of Java. This is the second dying technology
in the past couple of months to cause problems.
While both of these are still available you have to wonder who is behind it.
We need to be more active in finding solutions to these problems. Apple (or
was it Adobe?) also killed Java off on the Mac.
The majority of Flash's desirability on the web is the DRM it offers. This is
true of Silverlight as well. How can these issues be resolved without DRM?
The industry is forcing DRM on consumers and consumers aren't resisting.
There are some users who are reverting to piracy although that doesn't really
solve the problem.
There probably needs to be a push to change the law to stop DRM. We need
better coordination of the major organisations that have an interest in it.
Think the anti-ACTA protests for DRM.
