🚀 go-pugleaf

netvegetable wrote:
> On Fri, 01 Aug 2008 08:32:51 +1000, Wayne. wrote:
> 
>> netvegetable wrote:
>>>
>>> Please return to putting up news items as mp4/wmv/mpg files.
>>>
>>> A small number of us use open source operating systems. Because we make
>>> this moral choice, we often don't have access to adobe flash software.
>>> As a consequence, we don't have access to abc online video and news.
>>>
>>> We may only be a minority, but we pay our taxes too. And I don't
>>> believe we should be penalized for our ethical stance.
>>>
>>> Please stop trying to lock us into using proprietary software. We do
>>> not want to be beholden to software giants like Adobe, and we do not
>>> believe our taxes should be going to helping foreign corporations like
>>> this dominate the web.
>>>
>>>
>> If your 'morally' chosen OS does not have support for Flash, then
>> contact Adobe.
>>
> 
> Adobe is not accountable to me. I do not pay my taxes to Adobe. Adobe is 
> a corporation, and is quite free to just ignore me, whatever I contact 
> them about.
> 
> The ABC, on the other hand, is a public broadcaster, payed for by our 
> taxes. And I, for one, do not believe my tax money should be helping make 
> Adobe software the standard for viewing online content.
> 
>> It might also help if you told us what OS you are using.
> 
> Ubuntu linux PPC, just fyi.
> 

So you have not bothered to download the OSS Flash plugin.