New York Times won’t let Linux users view (some) videos

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Author: JT Smith

There is no technical reason why a GNU/Linux user running the proprietary Flash player can’t view New York Times video, but for some reason that newspaper’s honchos have decided to limit video viewing everywhere except on their front page to proprietary operating systems. Watch the video below and you’ll see what I mean.

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Can’t or don’t want to use Flash? Download the Ogg Theora version.