<devils advocate> Wow, what an excellent use of council tax payers money.
I mean, firstly nobody else has developed any kind of streaming video system, so I'm glad they spent 18 months building it themselves. And the potential user base is, what, the >1% of people in the UK with computers that run Linux, provided they also live in Waverley, and want to stream video of their local council meetings. I wonder what the cost per user is? Perhaps we can get together and do a FOI request on the council to find out? </devils advocate> m On 02/03/07, Glyn Wintle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39286141,00.htm When the European Commission launched a streaming video service last year which excluded Linux users, large swathes of the open source community became deeply angry. Now, a Surrey local council has shown that open source operating systems can be included in such programmes. ...a local council in Surrey has developed a streaming project over the last 18 months. And unlike the Commission's project, developers behind the UK version have made their service available to Linux users. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for earth-friendly autos? Browse Top Cars by "Green Rating" at Yahoo! Autos' Green Center. http://autos.yahoo.com/green_center/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
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