Ben Barrett wrote:

> So there *is* a less-evil option, but if you want to use the truly Free
> player, you still have to rely on (and allow!) some non-free code onto
> your system (the DLL).  The DLL is designed for Windows, so one would
> hope that it would not make any malicious linux kernel calls... but I
> guess it could have malicious machine-level code for x86.  Hopefully
> not.

Using the DLL outside Windows is also a violation of Microsoft's EULA,
and I don't think the legislature wants to be forcing citizens to
break the law to participate in state government.

-- 
Bob Miller                              K<bob>
kbobsoft software consulting
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