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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 -- 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