Alex Hudson wrote:
On Sat, 2007-09-08 at 12:41 +0100, Jon Grant wrote:
Wonder if BBC plan is to run something on top of MS's Silverlight (might
have read this somewhere already).
That's pretty close to the truth as I understand it - it's been touted
in the trade press.
Yes The Register mapped this out in an unusually lucid article.
I guess the BBC would have no quarrels with a proprietary linux
application to fulfil their requirement set down by the Trust. Would be
better if they were obliged to use open standards and free software to
achieve cross-platform compatibility.
This debate is being phrased too much in terms of "compatibility" rather
than "rights' IMHO. Freedom allows people to make compatibility. It is a
subset of the problem, and will be solved by a solution rather than
being a solution.
I think there's actually three things at play here:
1. whether or not the player is free software;
2. whether or not the video codecs are free software;
3. whether or not the BBC use DRM.
At the moment, 1, 2, & 3 are all 'not'. 1 is pretty trivial imho, and
not really worth worrying about.
1 would obviate 2 and 3...
- Rob.
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