It seems criminal to not make it for the best OS that exists. <duck> ________________________________________
Überity.com President & COO Adobe LiveCycle ES Consultant Services http://www.uberity.com Blog | http://technoracle.blogspot.com Twitter | @Uberity @duanechaos On 12-02-28 7:06 PM, "Jason Gardner" <jason.gardner...@gmail.com> wrote: >>If linux is important to any more developers out there, it would be good >if you could voice your support. > >Consider my support voiced. I'd be glad to help with any Linux+Flex >initiatives. > >>>For people whose business is selling Flex apps to Linux users, this is >>>of >course very bad news. >>Do such people exist? > >Yep, I was one of them. The last company I worked for sold a digital >signage solution. The "player", the device that attached to an LCD >screen, >ran Linux and Flex/AIR. We were stuck on AIR 2.6 after Adobe dropped >support for Linux, and since then, the company has gone with a completely >different technology. Using anything other than Linux as the OS for the >player was not feasible, so, as a result, it's no longer Flex on those >thousands of units. Although a smaller percentage, my current company is >also in need of having our AIR apps run on Linux. AIR 2.6, coupled with a >bunch of native code, will probably get me by for a while. Being able to >do my development on Linux (as well as being able to target >iOS/Android/Windows Phone/Blackberry) are the most important things for me >to continue developing with Flex.
