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Free is too expensive (Economist)

Free is too expensive (Economist)

Posted Mar 31, 2012 2:31 UTC (Sat) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)
In reply to: Free is too expensive (Economist) by jcm
Parent article: Free is too expensive (Economist)

Adobe didn't discontinue flash for linux because there were too many packaging systems, they never supported the different packaging systems in the first place, they bundled everything in statically and bypassed the packaging system (the distros played catch-up to clean things up, but that didn't cost Adobe any effort)


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Free is too expensive (Economist)

Posted Apr 1, 2012 16:29 UTC (Sun) by tuna (guest, #44480) [Link]

Well, they still have a yum repo for fedora (and maybe RHEL): http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions/

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