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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 tom wrote: > Alan Pope wrote: >> 2009/7/16 tom <tompotts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: >> >>> I cant understand this - the BBC had the rights and sold them to Gates >>> and now we have to install silverlight to watch them? >>> >> Moonlight (the open source implementation of Silverlight) may be able >> to view this. I haven't tried myself, but will do when I'm not on 3g. >> >> http://mono-project.com/Moonlight >> >> Cheers, >> Al. >> >> > The trouble with that is moonlight is still 'not free'. > What is annoying is that BG has bought something we should have for free > from the BBC and now we have to poison our machines with his software to > watch something that should not be in that format - and he's being > hailed as some kind of philanthropist for his actions! > Tom te tom te tom > > For the benefit of people who have no idea what the feynman lectures are there is the wiki pedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feynman_Lectures_on_Physics I would suggest we complain to the Office of fair trading, or someone clearly this is desgined to get people to buy and use windows. and give yet another reason to avoid Linux because people can't access material , perhaps someone can write a quick article on the above to explain in plain english the issues involved and why people should freely due to propriatory software/ I don't understandf what silverlight or moonlight is, some sort of plug in like flash i am guessing. Its also another reason why WE NEED TO find a decent venue to give talks, on free software, and we can give this as an example of the disadvantage of not using free software, now that these are in the propriatory format, how long will they last on line, will we still be able to access them in 10 years time, when the net will probably look different, how much will it cost to do this, in 10 years. If they are in ogg format, or the video version of ogg or whatever they will be freely accessable for years to come. Software freedom day is 19th September. As a group we need to get more pro-active to promote freedom, we don't need to promote Linux lets concentrate on freedom first, (as at least we can agree on that, rather than looking fragmented while we argue over what distro to use) using the above examples, then show people alternatives to Windows. Paul - -- Paul Sutton www.zleap.net Support Open and ISO standard file formats ISO 26300 odf http://www.odfalliance.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkpe/q8ACgkQaggq1k2FJq3xBACfWpmfUYZooI7If5h7lwBDdeDe waEAniCZKV6WAkSCbBcdAVXVndiRNj5m =DOtK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html