Re: Open letter to ABC

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From: B J Foster
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:00

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netvegetable wrote:
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> Please return to putting up news items as mp4/wmv/mpg files. 
> 
> A small number of us use open source operating systems. Because we make 
> this moral choice, we often don't have access to adobe flash software. As 
> a consequence, we don't have access to abc online video and news.
> 
> We may only be a minority, but we pay our taxes too. And I don't believe 
> we should be penalized for our ethical stance.
> 
> Please stop trying to lock us into using proprietary software. We do not 
> want to be beholden to software giants like Adobe, and we do not believe 
> our taxes should be going to helping foreign corporations like this 
> dominate the web.
> 

Hear, hear!

Why not post the contact and address, so that others can send them the 
same message

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Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:00:31 +1000
From: B J Foster <bjfoster@yahoo.com>
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