[SGVLUG] netflix on native linux - hope it is not a vaporware announcement

[John E. Kreznar]

In a posting purportedly from "Robert Leyva" <mrflash818 at geophile.net>
but lacking a digital signature, it is written

> netflix on native linux - hope it is not a vaporware announcement:

> http://liliputing.com/2011/08/netflix-video-streaming-for-linux-on-the-way.html

There we read

   Right now Netflix relies on Microsoft Silverlight technology to
   stream video to computers -- but Linux machines don't support
   Silverlight.  That shouldn't be a huge problem though, because
   neither do Android or iOS devices, and Netflix has already developed
   apps to stream video to both of those platforms.

   It's likely that the Chrome OS plugin and Linux client are related
   projects, since Chrome OS is based on Linux.

But Android is also based on Linux [1,2].  So why doesn't the Android
Netflix app already work on Linux?  What could the author have had in
mind here?

Another question, unrelated:

   ... there are a few catches: If you're using a computer ... you need
   to be in the US.

How do they determine whether you're "in the US"?


[1] http://per.bothner.com/blog/2008/AndroidHelloScheme/ : "Google's
phone operating system "Android" is based on a custom Java virtual
machine on top of GNU/Linux."

[2] http://news.google.com.0/news?q=motorola+droid+linux : "10 Reasons
Why Google Android Is Secure ...  Linux is an extremely secure operating
system.  And it just so happens that Google's Android platform is based
on Linux."

-- 
 John E. Kreznar jek at ininx.com 9F1148454619A5F08550 705961A47CC541AFEF13

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