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Of course the reason they are doing this
isn't necessarily to capture the small Linux desktop market, but more likely to draw people away from the Gnash project, which is a GNU supported flash player making considerable strides in mimicking Flash Player's capabilities over the last year. If Gnash succeeds in matching Flash Player's capabilities in the Linux player market then the Windows player market would soon follow, and since it's free source that could lead to free Flash editors as well, and then Adobe would lose control of the Flash market. And they can't have that, so it's more profitable to give the Linux (and 64-bit) desktop market the player they want even if it's at a loss.
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Wow, this is the final nail in M$'s coffin  A.Typical Zork | 10/19/06
It does help....  bportlock | 10/19/06
Update  Richard Flude | 10/19/06
It's about friggin time! NT  Sabz5150 | 10/19/06
Adobe releases beta of Flash for Linux  Loverock Davidson | 10/19/06
Wouldn't it be ...  phburks | 10/19/06
But it still affects linux  Loverock Davidson | 10/19/06
However...  zkiwi | 10/19/06
What's so difficult being happy for someone else's good fortune? (NT)  RicD_ | 10/19/06
What is good about it? (NT)  Loverock Davidson | 10/19/06
...and with that simple statement...  Zeppo9191 | 10/19/06
RE: ...and with that simple statement...  joe6pack_z | 10/19/06
It's Adobe that doing it  voska | 10/19/06
But it still affects linux  Loverock Davidson | 10/19/06
So...  Sabz5150 | 10/19/06
What did you expect?  barstewards | 10/19/06
Isn't it funny  Loverock Davidson | 10/19/06
Well  zkiwi | 10/19/06
Well  Loverock Davidson | 10/20/06
I give it a 2 out of 10  Patrick Jones | 10/19/06
Ratings?  Loverock Davidson | 10/19/06
Uh-huh  Patrick Jones | 10/19/06
Nope  Loverock Davidson | 10/19/06
Whatever gets you through the day..  Patrick Jones | 10/19/06
Maybe in a couple of areas Rockhead ...  Henaway | 10/19/06
Nope  oldfellow | 10/20/06
I tell you - Loverock Davidson is right!!  lovvvvie | 10/19/06
Who really cares about Flash player  swoopee | 10/19/06
I'm surprises nobody's posted this yet  Zeppo9191 | 10/19/06
Actually it's around the same time as Flash Player for Vista Beta  Richard Flude | 10/19/06
Of course the reason they are doing this  Michael Kelly | 10/19/06
ummmm.....  unoriginal_sin | 10/19/06
responses  Michael Kelly | 10/19/06
Message has been deleted.  nightman45 | 10/19/06
Now if they'd just optimize Flash for Mac, we'd be on a roll...  olePigeon | 10/19/06
that doesn make sense  unoriginal_sin | 10/19/06
It's been 12 years, you'd think they could at least do something...  olePigeon | 10/20/06
Slow Everywhere  Yensi717 | 10/19/06
It works! It's alive! happy  WebThingy | 10/19/06
Painfully slow, but better than 7.  D-cat | 10/20/06
Oh, Crap  OKJoe | 10/20/06
Toilet Paper  D-cat | 10/21/06

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