[luau] NEWS: Status of Macromedia Flash petition

[W. Wayne Liauh]

  Warren-

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: <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
>
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>>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:
>>
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>>
>>>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
>>>      
>>>
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