[Eug-lug] Crappy Cow

[alan]

On Fri, 4 May 2007, terry na wrote:

> As far as NASA .gov goes they are using are tax money unwisely with a
> windows OS they have a alternative in Linux and they save $$$ when they
> compose videos the Ubuntu defult software will view there videos. my 2 cents
> and fairly new to Ubuntu.

They use flash because their web designer thought it was "cool".  They 
don't quite get the fact that it locks out some groups of people.

* Those who cannot figure out how to install software

* Those who are on platforms that do not support Flash

* Those who are on processors that do not support Flash.

There is not an "official" flash version for 64-bit processors. (Even if 
you are on Windows.)

They don't care about the fringe users (which they consider 
non-Windows/Mac users to be).  They don't think about the 64-bit users. 
And they figure if you are smart enough to go to the NASA site, you are 
smart enough to install Flash.

BTW, installing Flash on Linux is pretty easy these days.  Not a bit deal. 
They have RPMs downloadable from Adobe's site.  Windows users have to 
install it themselves as well.  No big deal.

There are a whole bunch of reasons why people should not run Windows. 
Security is only one of them.

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