[luau] NEWS: Status of Macromedia Flash petition

[Warren Togami]

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: <jam at McQuil.Com>
To: "Warren Togami" <warren at togami.com>
Cc: <jam at ltsp.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2002 9:38 PM
Subject: Re: Status of Macromedia Flash petition


> Warren,
>
> 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
> > warren at togami.com
> > Mid-Pacific Linux Users Group
> > http://www.mplug.org