Shockwave on Linux

[tracy_anne]

I can run shockwave in Firefox on Linux, and so can all of my customers.
$US35.00 might seem like a large amount of money to pay to enable a "Free"
software product like Shockwave to run on one's Linux box, but when you
consider that even when one includes the price of a Commercial Linux. $US49.95
for Linspire - half of which pays for access to the Linspire warehouse with
thousands of free [and open source] applications, $US79.95 for Xandros - same
deal as for Linspire, or even the yearly subscription of $130.00 for Mandriva
Silver level membership, which entitles you to free upgrades to every release
of the Powerpack version. You still get a far better deal than you ever get
when you purchase a computer with MS Windows pre installed, where about
$US90.00 to $US120.00 of the retail price is for just the operating system, and
you have to pay extra for say Microsoft Office $US500.00, while the cost of
OpenOffice.org is included in the price you paid for your Linux distribution,
as are products like Scribus {Desktop Publishing) and Inkscape and XaraExtreme
(Vector Graphics drawing). So already we can see that Linux is far far less
expensive than Microsoft.

So all in all, shelling out $US35.00 for Codeweavers Crossover is a small
price to pay to get Shockwave to run on Linux. My customers go away knowing
that all of their favourite online games will work on their new Secure and
virus free Linux box. Of course it would be far simpler, and my profits would
be higher if Adobe were to support Linux with all of their products. which
makes one wonder, what hold does Microsoft have over them in the case of
Shockwave that they won't support Linux, even with their "Free" software.

Recently Google have released some of it's windows applications as Linux
applications by the simple artifice of enabling WINE to run those application
as if they are still running natively on windows.There is a window of
oportunity here for Adobe, who could be doing the same thing, as this requires
no changes to their software, and by supporting WINE provides them with a low
cost path to porting their applications to Linux.

[DarthChaosofRSPW@gmail.com]

tracy_anne wrote:

> I can run shockwave in Firefox on Linux, and so can all of my customers.
> $US35.00 might seem like a large amount of money to pay to enable a "Free"
> software product like Shockwave to run on one's Linux box, but when you
> consider that even when one includes the price of a Commercial Linux. $US49.95
> for Linspire - half of which pays for access to the Linspire warehouse with
> thousands of free [and open source] applications, $US79.95 for Xandros - same
> deal as for Linspire, or even the yearly subscription of $130.00 for Mandriva
> Silver level membership, which entitles you to free upgrades to every release
> of the Powerpack version. You still get a far better deal than you ever get
> when you purchase a computer with MS Windows pre installed, where about
> $US90.00 to $US120.00 of the retail price is for just the operating system, and
> you have to pay extra for say Microsoft Office $US500.00, while the cost of
> OpenOffice.org is included in the price you paid for your Linux distribution,
> as are products like Scribus {Desktop Publishing) and Inkscape and XaraExtreme
> (Vector Graphics drawing). So already we can see that Linux is far far less
> expensive than Microsoft.
>
> So all in all, shelling out $US35.00 for Codeweavers Crossover is a small
> price to pay to get Shockwave to run on Linux. My customers go away knowing
> that all of their favourite online games will work on their new Secure and
> virus free Linux box. Of course it would be far simpler, and my profits would
> be higher if Adobe were to support Linux with all of their products. which
> makes one wonder, what hold does Microsoft have over them in the case of
> Shockwave that they won't support Linux, even with their "Free" software.

Crossover Office is a godsend. Installing iTunes 4.9 with Crossover 5.0
Pro is the only way I can get YTMND's embedded audio to properly work
on Firefox or Seamonkey. Plus, I can install the Windows version of
Flash Player 9 (the version for Mozilla/Seamonkey/Firefox/Opera) on
Linux using Crossover, so I really don't have to wait for the official
Linux version of Flash Player 9.

[Vinnah]

Is Shockwave ever going to be released on Linux. It doesn't make sense to me as
there are a load of people who use Linux now. And there are loads of places
that require the usage of Shockwave especially for internet games.