On Sun, 2007-12-30 at 16:48 +0000, Andy wrote: > > We need to give them some seriously loud > > advice to use Free Software, and if we did, I think they would. > > I doubt it. They are looking for any excuse to block all free > software. Why do you think iPlayer requires IE and ActiveX? There is > no technical reason what-so-ever for using ActiveX. It is there solely > to lock out Mozilla and it's ilk.
I really don't think that's the case. I don't think they intended to block out free software; they just didn't care, and it's much easier not to care than to have to do the work to include it. Building on top of IE - technically - is much easier than Mozilla. Similarly, I think the DRM is much more about preventing non-UK-resident users than free software users. The end result is the same, but I don't think we can make change without understanding the motivations. Cheers, Alex. _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
