Re: [backstage] Please release Perl on Rails as Free Software

2007-12-07 Thread Steve Jolly
Noah Slater wrote: On 06/12/2007, Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In fact isn't the bulk of this thread concerned with the way in which Perl On Rails will be non proprietary. Not really, proprietry is the wrong word to use here. The word free is much more descriptive. It is perfectly possible

Re: [backstage] Please release Perl on Rails as Free Software

2007-12-07 Thread Matt Lee
Steve Jolly wrote: To eliminate confusion, I propose that we in future refer to the FSF definition of free as GNU/Free. I thank you. Or you could say 'free software, as defined by the Free Software Foundation', which is more accurate and doesn't fall into the logical trap of everything having

Re: [backstage] Please release Perl on Rails as Free Software

2007-12-07 Thread Gordon Joly
At 18:25 +0200 6/12/07, Martin Belam wrote: The difference is that the BBC could drop the probability to zero by not requiring the use of proprietary software... Or by closing the list if it was deemed to be an unhelpful echo chamber that wasn't beneficial to the BBC for the amount of

Re: [backstage] Please release Perl on Rails as Free Software

2007-12-07 Thread Peter Bowyer
On 07/12/2007, Steve Jolly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Lee wrote: Steve Jolly wrote: To eliminate confusion, I propose that we in future refer to the FSF definition of free as GNU/Free. I thank you. Or you could say 'free software, as defined by the Free Software Foundation',

Re: [backstage] Please release Perl on Rails as Free Software

2007-12-07 Thread Sean DALY
Stone free The Jimi Hendrix version. Smoke free All flights. fre The Tivo version. It seems the romance languages avoid the pitfall by sensibly having two words for the two ideas, just like for penguins. So I'm on a one-man campaign to import 'libre' into English. Sean - Sent via the

Re: [backstage] Please release Perl on Rails as Free Software

2007-12-07 Thread Steve Jolly
Matt Lee wrote: Steve Jolly wrote: To eliminate confusion, I propose that we in future refer to the FSF definition of free as GNU/Free. I thank you. Or you could say 'free software, as defined by the Free Software Foundation', which is more accurate and doesn't fall into the logical trap of

Re: [backstage] The next big thing in ipTV

2007-12-07 Thread Frank Wales
Matthew Cashmore wrote: I'm at a conference in LA at the moment about Next Gen technologies and we've just been shown this as the 'Next Big Thing in TV' - I'd be really interested in everyone's thoughts http://pages.tvunetworks.com/index.html Please correct me if I'm mistaken, but ... is

Re: [backstage] The next big thing in ipTV

2007-12-07 Thread Steff
Matthew Cashmore wrote: I'm at a conference in LA at the moment about Next Gen technologies and we've just been shown this as the 'Next Big Thing in TV' - I'd be really interested in everyone's thoughts http://pages.tvunetworks.com/index.html I'd love to have some, but since it appears to

RE: [backstage] The next big thing in ipTV

2007-12-07 Thread Christopher Woods
TVU's alright, it's probably one of the more user-friendly IPTV solutions. I've used this kind of IPTV streaming on occasion in the past few years to get feeds of F1 races (to watch the F1 whilst I was at uni where I didn't have a TV or even TV signal (!)) or to watch american networks like the US

Re: [backstage] The next big thing in ipTV

2007-12-07 Thread Dave Crossland
On 07/12/2007, Matthew Cashmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://pages.tvunetworks.com/index.html P2P video streaming is very cool. Windows Media Player based products are very proprietary. Avoid :-) -- Regards, Dave Personal opinion only! - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group.

[backstage] The next big thing in ipTV

2007-12-07 Thread Matthew Cashmore
I'm at a conference in LA at the moment about Next Gen technologies and we've just been shown this as the 'Next Big Thing in TV' - I'd be really interested in everyone's thoughts http://pages.tvunetworks.com/index.html m ___ Matthew Cashmore Development Producer BBC