Comments on: 3500 Netflix on Linux petitions.

By: anonymoose

anonymoose — Tue, 25 May 2010 17:49:17 +0000

Nah, Moonlight 2.99 worked fine for me for the Olympics, and would work for Netflix. The problem is the DRM.

But Netflix put all the DRM and other modules for the Wii on a CD-ROM and distributed it. It works great. They could do the same thing with Linux.

After all, they licensed something to Roku, which is a Linux box.

This isn’t a technology issue — it’s a business issue.

But clearly they could use the Wii CD solution …

By: cackus

cackus — Wed, 05 May 2010 02:15:32 +0000

I won’t even use Silverlight on my windows systems. Who wants yet another proprietary standard? MS has shown a complete lack of ability when it comes to security and produce buggy code., Flash may be far from perfect, but at least it’s cross platform and mature enough that the major holes are patched. Frankly if it’s not an open multi platform standard I’ll wait for HTML5.

Silverlight is DOA as far as I’m concerned.

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:29:31 +0000

Well I officially canceled my Netflix account. There really is no point if I can’t watch on my Linux box. And DONT tell me to VBox Windows!

By: Tim in Colorado

Tim in Colorado — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:26:08 +0000

It’s too bad, but I think the real problem is the same one that prevented Netflix from working on Mac for so long: The MPAA has only approved certain DRM tech for Netflix to use. For a long time that wasn’t available on Mac, so they jumped on Silverlight when it came out on Mac.

So the petition may need to go to the MPAA, not to Netflix.

By: bottleman

bottleman — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 07:37:50 +0000

The petition is a lovely idea, but who is presenting that material to Netflix? It’s not much of a campaign if Netflix is supposed to discover this groundswell by themselves.

It might be more effective for those 3500 people to call Netflix customer service (they can’t be emailed apparently) and specifically ask for Linux support. That’s what I did. While I’m not holding my breath for a change, if 3500 more people did it it would make a huge impression.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 20:48:19 +0000

We don’t have netflix in Australia (might be coming soon I think)…so I’m not sure if it uses a special app or not, but I notice mythtv has a plugin for netflix and linux also has the moonlight project which is compatible with silverlight from what I can tell – so would that be enough?