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Listed below are comments made by jeevesbond between Wednesday, 2nd July 2008 and Wednesday, 2nd July 2008.

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BBC LiveUpdate 8:39pm on 02 Jul 2008 Just tested the application, there are the few bugs -- that the author already mentioned -- but aside from that, this thing is pretty slick.

I was impressed with the Adobe Air installer, it integrates really well with Ubuntu, for something that's not in the package repositories.
BBC LiveUpdate 8:12pm on 02 Jul 2008 Stevobagins wrote:
If people like you bothered to do a bit of research before getting on their high horse, the comments pages would be a lot easier to read.

Wow, how rude. I don't think musicbugz was at all out of line in posting that rant. Much the same thoughts ran through my head when clicking on the link, only to find a stark: 'Your platform is not supported' message.

Adobe might as well have plastered '*expletive* off' on that Web page. They should have said something like: 'Whilst your platform is not supported, we do have an alpha version available to test (if you're feeling adventurous)'. Which would have much avoided misunderstandings, and gained them extra testers.

Could this blog entry be amended, to include a link to the GNU/Linux version, please? That would also help avoid confusion. :)

That message back from Adobe really looks like a stock message they send to anyone with accessibility concerns. It's a shame they don't seem to care, even when an organisation like the BBC is telling them there's something wrong with their product.

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