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Re: [LUG] Gates Puts Feynman Lectures Online

 

2009/7/16 tom <tompotts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> The trouble with that is moonlight is still 'not free'.

In what sense?

I just grabbed the source from
http://ftp.novell.com/pub/mono/sources/moon/moon-1.0.1.tar.bz2 and the
LICENSE file says it's LGPL 2 with other bits under MS-PL and MIT
licenses.

> 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!

What format did you expect it to be in, really?

Cheers,
Al.

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