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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 tom wrote: > Paul Sutton wrote: >> -----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. >> > It bigger than that - its the .NET for browsers. Best bit of software > ever written alas 'owned' by MS. And only needed cos MS/Adobe and now > Apple have crippled HTML and JS as much as they can. >> 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 >> > Wonder if moonlight can convert it to OGG - if BG was doing this for the > reasons he said he was he wouldnt mind... > Tom te tom te tom > > > what does .net allow me to do, run applications within a browser, i never really understood all of this, I am not a programmer. 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 iEYEARECAAYFAkpfBREACgkQaggq1k2FJq3JGwCcDZkWkh7c/WlzhrG2YEb+MoNK IzUAn2bvbVjSAz//fAvcP/GYgrN62I46 =fJen -----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