Adobe, Linux and DRM

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a warning sign?

While I can see why you would pick flash, Linux users don't need or want that on the desktop. The only folks who want flash outside of the crazy cool artists expressing them self are advertisers and proprietary information distributors. Flash if you hadn't noticed hinders personal control in the browser by striping the browsers controls out from under it, through the use of a plugin. Without the plugin flash cannot be run in a browser, DUH, because flash objects are not real web documents!

Come on, will somebody else just call flash on what it is with me, A Back Door. Though it mostly seems to act like a stage entrance, where embedded objects, (applications) are ushered onto your own machine/stage and you don't get a back stage pass! Most of the time we don't like this sort of behavior, because of worms, viruses, etc.. Sure we should just trust Macromedia/Adobe, like we should just trust anything.

Because it strips personal browser control and puts it (most of the time) in the hands of folks wanting to sell you something, the commercial embrace of flash is no surprise. The fact that there is a not so subtle linking of DRM C.R.A.P with flash I personally am not surprised, nor would I be if Adobe entered the DRM frey on the back of a flash object!

Come on these commercial entities would want us to pay for their ads too if they could get away with it! Most folks running Linux don't pay for software, or support the way the commercial entities want us to, often, and deeply. Why is desktop Linux adoption so slow, it is not for lack of an Adobe app and certainly not flash!

While flash can be pretty cool, and convenient, folks that run Linux like their personal control! DRM is for the crass, truly non creative corporate types that want to squeeze blood from turnips, because they have no stomach for hunting real meat; basically they are gatherers, trying to gather yours and my money. Granted, gathering can be successful, but what is the level of their true craft skills, what do they really make? Deals with flash objects? Deals, trading the crafts of others, ok they are common merchants, dictating the future of Arts, Media, and true Information by lobbying and buying laws that limit personal use of something you have already payed for, or that they want you to pay for.

Right, Linux is built by geeks, but for everyone, not just geeks as you put it. The fact that a turnip like yourself or Scoble cant install a font server is no reason to implement DRM in Flash. LOL. Linux can use all the pretty/aesthetic fonts that Windows or Mac can; where have you and Scoble been? Oh yea, gathering; gathering all the broken minds that you damaged with commercial disinformation. Where do get off?

I don't buy the conciliatory tone at the end, like you are a friend to both Linux and Adobe. Like Adobe needs to know if it is OK to invest in Linux from you. Or that if us awkward geeky types want our pablum Flash 9 we should be nice to Adobe. It so warm fuzzy and sympathetic; It's pathetic.

Should this post be considered a warning sign?

Posted by: TakeIT2   Posted on: 08/18/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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