Adobe Drops Flash for Linux Except in Google Chrome

Honestly, Adobe. * You.

Dear Adobe. Your bedside relationship with Microsoft is really pissing the world off. And because Mac dropped you out of Ios you decided to punish Linux user?!!! Shame on you. Corporate chronie- ism at it's finest right there.

I believe it's obvious that the reason Adobe is doing this is because they are "in bed" with Microsoft. They will do anything they can to try to steer people away from Linux, back to Windows, so they don't lose any more money. It's all about corporate greed. Just look at the reasons why Microsoft keeps changing their OS to a version that is more hardware dependent. They don't want you to use a computer that is over 4 years old because they want to force you to buy a new one every couple of years, bundled with their latest version of Windows. Later versions of Windows simply cannot be run on older systems due to the higher hardware requirements. Linux, on the other hand, runs very well on older systems, even better on newer systems, has virtually no virus or spyware, and best of all is completely free of charge! Couple that with the fact that newer Linux distros such as Ubuntu and Linux Mint are much more user friendly now than the older versions were...in fact equally as user friendly as Windows and Mac OS X. At least Apple allows you to update your OS to the latest version without buying completely new hardware!

I'd love for the Flash source code to be opened up to the public. Flash has a poor security track record, mostly because of its closed-source model. It's not like I'm asking for Photoshop to be reasonably priced or anything!

Not really bothered to be honest. I use Chrome anyway but I do think Adobe are cutting off their nose to spite their face. The more they * people off, the less people will use their products. However big they think they are, the consumer always wins this sort of battle.

PAPPI sounds interesting, I'll have to look into that. But, no matter how you spin it, not having Flash support in Linux will have a crippling * . While I'm not sure if Chromium will have the same bundled Flash package (it tries to strip out all of the proprietary stuff), Firefox is still the browser-of-choice for most Linux distributions. That is, the majority of major distributions have it installed as the default. If Chromium doesn't have the bundled Flash plugin, then there will be some hard days ahead for those that are FOSS to the core. Couple that with the fact that they've dropped Reader from the platform as well and we're in for dire days ahead.

I am an avid supporter and promoter of Linux to anybody who will listen. I'm also tell people how much greater it is than the Windows that they're used to. Couple that with the fact that no modern viruses target the system and it's a win-win.

That said, Adobe has monopolized web media. Photoshop is the de-facto standard for image production, Flash for animations/games/interactivity (though I'd like to see some HTML5 canvas game libraries show up), Premiere/After Effects for video, etc. If the products of the tools of choice for most media creators are not available to Linux end users, then why would anybody want to switch over?

It's truly a crippling * . If Linux can not bring users all the content they are used to receiving, then it seems crippled to anybody looking to switch over.

Let's hope this PAPPI thing catches on.