[ubuntu-uk] MS vs. OO - and Adobe!

[Jacob Mansfield]

I currently don't like adobe because of the lack of x64 support for flash >
no web games/movies

On 16 September 2010 13:46, pmgazz <pmgazz at gmx.co.uk> wrote:

>  I had a similar heart-searching around Adobe Air - I work with non-profits
> for whom fundraising is core - most funders issue badly-constructed pdf
> forms and trying to fill these in with Evince is still a work in progress. I
> can manage to do it because I know Evince fairly well and what it can and
> can't do and don't mind working around it - my clients were having total
> nervous breakdowns.
>
> Getting rid of Adobe's ghastly, bloated and tentacled reader was a major
> plus in moving to Ubuntu for me ;)  However, my clients really really
> weren't coping. I now put Acroread onto Ubuntu Desktops where people need to
> deal with pdf forms. Hate it, but there it is.
>
> And, until I upgraded to 10.04 and BBC iPlayer didn't, I used to install
> Air (grumbling all the way) so I can run the iPlayer on my desktop. I'm
> really committed to Free Software but I'm not a hermit ;)
>
> By the way, is there something we could (collectively) do to hassle the BCC
> to sort out the iPlayer for Lucid (and Maverick - or is it fixed on
> Maverick? I haven't had time to install it yet).
>
> Paula
>
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