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Re:Netflix Continues To Disappoint Linux Users by pspeter3 on Monday September 17, 2012 @05:33PM (#4535007)
But it is already on Chrome OS. It is certainly not ideal to limit it to one browser, but at least it would get it to linux users faster and they can improve from there.
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Re:Netflix Continues To Disappoint Linux Users by bunderbunder on Monday September 17, 2012 @05:57PM (#4535122)
Without knowing more about the details, we can't assume that it's so simple.

It might be that there is other software beyond Chrome itself that Netflix relies on in Chromebooks, and that software may or may not play nice with arbitrary distributions.

Example wild speculation: Netflix for the Chromebooks relies on a kernel extension for DRM, and they know they wouldn't be able to get the desktop Linux community at large to swallow that pill.

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