"Sorry Delaware legal community" but Patent law is Federal law under and Federal Courts jurisdiction.
Federal Courts, plural. Different district judges are known to rule differently, and rulings of the Court of Appeals for one circuit aren't binding on other circuits unless upheld by the Supreme Court.
The decision overturned a ruling last year by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, a Washington-based patent court, that said patent suits are fair game anywhere a defendant company's products are sold.
Are they going to actually hand down a ruling that overturns prior decisions of the lower court?
Then we appear to disagree on the definition of an "open platform", and discussion will be unfruitful until this is resolved. Does it mean "one for which a free writer and reader could lawfully be created"? Or does it mean "one for which a free writer and reader already exists"? If neither, than what does it mean to you?
Answering my own question: I guess one of the costs of using free software is having to copy and paste the make and model into a search engine and add the word Linux for all dozen models in a particular roundup.
Doing so might result in the same sort of buyer's remorse mentioned earlier because the list you cited includes the ASUS T100TA and X205TA, which scored poorly in DebianOn. Sound, suspend, and Bluetooth fail on both the T100TA and X205TA. How would I go about narrowing the list you cited to only those products that work well with GNU/Linux?
Flash is a proprietary platform using proprietary software from the vendor, Adobe.
A paid-for copy of proprietary Macromedia Flash or proprietary Adobe Flash prior to Creative Cloud can still be used without charge. This is not true of proprietary Adobe Animate in Creative Cloud.
If you don't like it, then leave it.
So how can an author leave Flash and take his old creative works with him? Which application distributed as free software do you recommend for creating HTML5 vector animations, particularly for converting old FLA source files?
You mentioned buyer's remorse. I am willing to correct this by purchasing the replacement hardware that you recommend for the following requirements:
Let's say I want to buy a subnotebook computer (a laptop with a 10.1 to 11.6 inch display) to run HTML5 vector animations, GCC, and Wine applications inside GNU/Linux. (Wine requires x86 or x86-64 architecture.) I also want WLAN, Bluetooth, audio, and suspend to work. Which subnotebook computer brand is any good nowadays?
Headlines are limited in length. Abbreviating "2 Billion" to "2B" saves seven characters that can be used elsewhere. Otherwise, the headline gets chopped off:
2B Pages On Web Now Use Google's AMP, Pages Now Load Twice As Fast 2 Billion Pages On Web Now Use Google's AMP, Pages Now Load Twice
It's the same reason Slashdot users use "M$" in comment subjects: to save seven characters off "Microsoft" while recalling Microsoft's history as a publisher of BASIC interpreters.
Who said ads? On sites such as Newgrounds, Albino Blacksheep, and Dagobah, the SWF is the primary work that the viewer has chosen to view.
Even Adobe is telling people to convert to HTML5
it requires authors to [...] start renting Adobe Animate in Creative Cloud.
Why would encouraging them to write [things] in HTML5 require them to use specific software?
Because as far as I am aware, only said "specific software" is capable of converting the author's existing FLA source file to an HTML5 canvas animation. Otherwise, the author would have to remake the vector animation or game from scratch. Or what package other than Adobe Animate can convert FLA to something modern?
The "Basic" version of the JollyGood Sans font, intended to resemble neat hand-lettering, is available without charge. Its download page requires "payment" with a share on Facebook or Twitter through the Pay with a Tweet platform before the download can proceed.
I ended up using Craig Rozynski's Comic Neue instead.
At the top of National Weather Service's radar pages is a link "Go to Standard Version". NWS refers to the animated GIF as "Standard Version" and the Flash animation as "Enhanced Version". For example, "standard" radar for IWX (Northern Indiana) looks like this: no terrain layer but still usable for many.
Adobe itself supports CreateJS and publishes to HTML5 in Adobe Animate
Which stops working after a month even if you pay for it.
Adobe could also take it a step further and produce a WebAssembly build of Flash player to support old Flash junk that the authors are too lazy to convert to HTML5.
But that wouldn't make Adobe money. Instead of letting authors convert works made with used copies of Flash, Adobe wants to lock authors into a Creative Cloud rental agreement.
"sudo" is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
(Translation: Windows UAC doesn't appear to support running an elevated Command Prompt as a subshell in a non-elevated Command Prompt window.)
And to answer your next question: Some people continue to run Windows because they've found that GNU/Linux doesn't fully support the chipset of their laptop.
games and animations running on a deprecated platform are "useful"???
The Nintendo Entertainment System is likewise "a deprecated platform". Yet many classic games are exclusive to it, not having been (legally) ported to a newer platform.
That can be abused. Watch a site show only the headline and first sentence until the viewer clicks the "Read More" button, which treats the click as an authorization to play for as long as the page remains visible.
A policy to require a separate click for each media element would be impractical as well. A web-based video game would end up pausing every single time an event occurs that results in playing a sound effect. You'd look for the native version only to find that the native version is for a platform other than yours.
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"Sorry Delaware legal community" but Patent law is Federal law under and Federal Courts jurisdiction.
Federal Courts, plural. Different district judges are known to rule differently, and rulings of the Court of Appeals for one circuit aren't binding on other circuits unless upheld by the Supreme Court.
The decision overturned a ruling last year by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, a Washington-based patent court, that said patent suits are fair game anywhere a defendant company's products are sold.
Are they going to actually hand down a ruling that overturns prior decisions of the lower court?
I believe the answer is yes.
Then we appear to disagree on the definition of an "open platform", and discussion will be unfruitful until this is resolved. Does it mean "one for which a free writer and reader could lawfully be created"? Or does it mean "one for which a free writer and reader already exists"? If neither, than what does it mean to you?
Answering my own question: I guess one of the costs of using free software is having to copy and paste the make and model into a search engine and add the word Linux for all dozen models in a particular roundup.
I can't help you with your buyer's remorse.
inside GNU/Linux
Here you go, my son. Pick one and buy it.
Doing so might result in the same sort of buyer's remorse mentioned earlier because the list you cited includes the ASUS T100TA and X205TA, which scored poorly in DebianOn. Sound, suspend, and Bluetooth fail on both the T100TA and X205TA. How would I go about narrowing the list you cited to only those products that work well with GNU/Linux?
Google doesn't include the experience and expertise of other Slashdot users reading this discussion.
In theory, Flash is an open platform as well since Open Screen Project removed restrictions on third party SWF players.
Flash isn't free software. Why should your HTML5 animation tool be free software?
Because you put so much emphasis on the word "proprietary". What's the benefit of replacing one proprietary tool with another proprietary tool?
Crimea invasion and now this? It looks like long-time KGBer Vladimir Putin is serious about rebuilding the Union of Soviet Social-ist Republics.
[Ubuntu's unattended upgrade support] has to be installed separately and then configured to run.
Fortunately, the default install of Ubuntu installs and configures as such.
Flash is a proprietary platform using proprietary software from the vendor, Adobe.
A paid-for copy of proprietary Macromedia Flash or proprietary Adobe Flash prior to Creative Cloud can still be used without charge. This is not true of proprietary Adobe Animate in Creative Cloud.
If you don't like it, then leave it.
So how can an author leave Flash and take his old creative works with him? Which application distributed as free software do you recommend for creating HTML5 vector animations, particularly for converting old FLA source files?
You mentioned buyer's remorse. I am willing to correct this by purchasing the replacement hardware that you recommend for the following requirements:
Let's say I want to buy a subnotebook computer (a laptop with a 10.1 to 11.6 inch display) to run HTML5 vector animations, GCC, and Wine applications inside GNU/Linux. (Wine requires x86 or x86-64 architecture.) I also want WLAN, Bluetooth, audio, and suspend to work. Which subnotebook computer brand is any good nowadays?
Use another HTML5 animation tool. There are many to choose from.
Among the many HTML5 animation tools to choose from, which are worth one's time to evaluate?
Among the many HTML5 animation tools to choose from, which can import and convert legacy FLA source files?
Many popular prepared statement frameworks still don't support array-valued parameters, such as that for the right side of operator IN.
You can fault Microsoft on its processes for getting updates out there, but how many Linux boxes patched glibc or the kernel automatically?
Ubuntu Desktop has unattended-upgrade in a cron job, and I imagine that its derivatives do as well.
Form an industry group to tell VLC that you want Linux versions.
I don't see the problem. I thought VideoLAN was already putting out both GNU/Linux and Android versions of VLC media player.
Get estimate of how long it will take X to be rewritten to run on Linux.
Xubuntu already includes X Window System in the default install.
3. Use the software in Wine on Linux if compatible
4. Switch to a competitor's application that runs on Linux
Headlines are limited in length. Abbreviating "2 Billion" to "2B" saves seven characters that can be used elsewhere. Otherwise, the headline gets chopped off:
It's the same reason Slashdot users use "M$" in comment subjects: to save seven characters off "Microsoft" while recalling Microsoft's history as a publisher of BASIC interpreters.
their ads
Who said ads? On sites such as Newgrounds, Albino Blacksheep, and Dagobah, the SWF is the primary work that the viewer has chosen to view.
Even Adobe is telling people to convert to HTML5
it requires authors to [...] start renting Adobe Animate in Creative Cloud.
Why would encouraging them to write [things] in HTML5 require them to use specific software?
Because as far as I am aware, only said "specific software" is capable of converting the author's existing FLA source file to an HTML5 canvas animation. Otherwise, the author would have to remake the vector animation or game from scratch. Or what package other than Adobe Animate can convert FLA to something modern?
The "Basic" version of the JollyGood Sans font, intended to resemble neat hand-lettering, is available without charge. Its download page requires "payment" with a share on Facebook or Twitter through the Pay with a Tweet platform before the download can proceed.
I ended up using Craig Rozynski's Comic Neue instead.
"Default" yes, "only" no.
At the top of National Weather Service's radar pages is a link "Go to Standard Version". NWS refers to the animated GIF as "Standard Version" and the Flash animation as "Enhanced Version". For example, "standard" radar for IWX (Northern Indiana) looks like this: no terrain layer but still usable for many.
Adobe itself supports CreateJS and publishes to HTML5 in Adobe Animate
Which stops working after a month even if you pay for it.
Adobe could also take it a step further and produce a WebAssembly build of Flash player to support old Flash junk that the authors are too lazy to convert to HTML5.
But that wouldn't make Adobe money. Instead of letting authors convert works made with used copies of Flash, Adobe wants to lock authors into a Creative Cloud rental agreement.
sudo apt-get upgrade
"sudo" is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
(Translation: Windows UAC doesn't appear to support running an elevated Command Prompt as a subshell in a non-elevated Command Prompt window.)
And to answer your next question: Some people continue to run Windows because they've found that GNU/Linux doesn't fully support the chipset of their laptop.
games and animations running on a deprecated platform are "useful"???
The Nintendo Entertainment System is likewise "a deprecated platform". Yet many classic games are exclusive to it, not having been (legally) ported to a newer platform.
That can be abused. Watch a site show only the headline and first sentence until the viewer clicks the "Read More" button, which treats the click as an authorization to play for as long as the page remains visible.
A policy to require a separate click for each media element would be impractical as well. A web-based video game would end up pausing every single time an event occurs that results in playing a sound effect. You'd look for the native version only to find that the native version is for a platform other than yours.