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Netflix: ‘No Change in our plans for Linux’ http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/09/netflix-no-change-in-our-plans-for-linux http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/09/netf

Netflix: ‘No Change in our plans for Linux’ http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/09/netflix-no-change-in-our-plans-for-linux http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/09/netflix-no-change-in-our-...

imglorp 14y ago
That's just Bollocks. And by bollocks I mean: another anti-consumer business deal. There are NF clients for PC, Android, ChromeOS, Xbox, PS3, Wii, AppleTV, iPhone, and iPad, at least. They're using webkit and HTML5 under the client covers[1,2]. They're a heavily invested open source company and they use and publish tons of source code and open API's for developers [3,4]. Conclusion? They will lose some media deals if they offer a Linux port. Sucks to be us. 1. http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/06/netflix-platforms-apps-webkit-testing.html http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/06/netflix-platforms-apps-webk... 2. http://techblog.netflix.com/search?q=webkit http://techblog.netflix.com/search?q=webkit 3. http://techblog.netflix.com/search/label/api http://techblog.netflix.com/search/label/api 4. https://github.com/Netflix https://github.com/Netflix
- chimeracoder 14y ago
  > They will lose some media deals if they offer a Linux port. To be honest, no, they won't. In fact, they'll likely lose some if they do. They've been able to sell some media execs on the (false) premise that Silverlight == DRM == security == anti-piracy, so as long as Silverlight's DRM remains unavailable on Linux (ie, until the end of time), they won't offer official support on Linux. The alternatives for them would be to a) use Silverlight, but without DRM so that Linux users can use Moonlight. b) use Flash c) use some other technology (A) will never happen because they'll lose all their deals. (B) will never happen for the same reason. (C) will never happen because it would take too much time to roll something from scratch, and even then you have the same problem of DRM. So, at the end of the day, DRM once again gives users every incentive to pirate rather than pay!
  - tomrod 14y ago
    Yep[0]. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_unintended_consequences http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_unintended_consequences

Netflix: ‘No Change in our plans for Linux’ http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/09/netflix-no-change-in-our-plans-for-linux http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/09/netflix-no-change-in-our-...

imglorp 14y ago

That's just Bollocks. And by bollocks I mean: another anti-consumer business deal. There are NF clients for PC, Android, ChromeOS, Xbox, PS3, Wii, AppleTV, iPhone, and iPad, at least. They're using webkit and HTML5 under the client covers[1,2]. They're a heavily invested open source company and they use and publish tons of source code and open API's for developers [3,4]. Conclusion? They will lose some media deals if they offer a Linux port. Sucks to be us. 1. http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/06/netflix-platforms-apps-webkit-testing.html http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/06/netflix-platforms-apps-webk... 2. http://techblog.netflix.com/search?q=webkit http://techblog.netflix.com/search?q=webkit 3. http://techblog.netflix.com/search/label/api http://techblog.netflix.com/search/label/api 4. https://github.com/Netflix https://github.com/Netflix

chimeracoder 14y ago
> They will lose some media deals if they offer a Linux port. To be honest, no, they won't. In fact, they'll likely lose some if they do. They've been able to sell some media execs on the (false) premise that Silverlight == DRM == security == anti-piracy, so as long as Silverlight's DRM remains unavailable on Linux (ie, until the end of time), they won't offer official support on Linux. The alternatives for them would be to a) use Silverlight, but without DRM so that Linux users can use Moonlight. b) use Flash c) use some other technology (A) will never happen because they'll lose all their deals. (B) will never happen for the same reason. (C) will never happen because it would take too much time to roll something from scratch, and even then you have the same problem of DRM. So, at the end of the day, DRM once again gives users every incentive to pirate rather than pay!
- tomrod 14y ago
  Yep[0]. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_unintended_consequences http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_unintended_consequences