Re: [Fsfe-uk] BBC News partnership with Microsoft

[Matt Lee]

On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 12:31:07PM +0100, Gareth Bowker wrote:

> "on any device" and "accessible" stood out for me - especially that last
> one. If MS were to wrap the BBC's media in proprietary formats and/or
> DRM, then it would not be accessible - and not be available on any
> device.

Maybe. Maybe in the eyes of Microsoft 'on any device' and 'accessible' may have
very little to do with using a non-free format.

Whatever happened to Dirac, anyway?

http://dirac.sourceforge.net/

mattl

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