[Ham-Linux] [linuxham] OT: World Radio Online

[Maynard Wright]

I agree.  Since I use Linux only and do not have Flash, I'll not be a 
potential customer of theirs.

73,

Maynard
W6PAP


On Thursday 20 October 2011 05:32:09 Nate Bargmann wrote:
> For those of us who have been subscribers to World Radio and then have
> viewed it via the downloadable PDF for the past almost three years, the
> next issue, November 2011, will revert to paid subscription.  In itself
> the subscription is not so bad as the way it will be done.  WRO will be
> hosted by Zinio which only offers us Linux users the ability to view the
> content via a Flash plugin.  No offline reader is available and even if
> it were, the content is in their proprietary format.  This is
> unacceptable to me and for the first time since January 1984, I will not
> receive a new monthly issue of World Radio.
>
> I'm sure the powers that be at CQ Communications couldn't care less
> about me or the few other Linux using hams that enjoyed World Radio,
> otherwise a more equitable solution would have been offered.  Vendor
> lockin is a non-starter in my shack.  If a PDF version is offered once
> again, I will reconsider but for now I must vote by keeping my wallet
> closed.
>
> 73, de Nate >>