Thats a huge F**\* Y** to a large customer base.

dfc · on March 31, 2012

If only wishing made it so. I would love it if that was the case but sadly linux users running firefox, epiphany, etc are not a large base of anything and certainly not a large paying customer base....

batista · on March 31, 2012

How are Linux desktop users a "customer" base?

For one, they are a very small niche. All "web stats" reports (the most accurate way of measuring such things) put them somewhere around 1%.

Plus, they are not paying for Flash. Flash, the paid-for tool, doesn't even run on Linux.

el_presidente · on April 1, 2012

1% = millions of users. Out of that 1% comes a significant portion of the people who run the sites that serve flash content.

batista · on April 1, 2012

Those sites serve Flash content to non-Linux desktops over Linux ones by a huge margin, like 99% to 1%.

And merely serving Flash doesn't mean you are an Adobe customer. The guy that writes the Flash content in Adobe Flash (in a Mac or a Windows PC) is their customer.