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"netvegetable" <none@all.com> wrote in message 
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> On Fri, 01 Aug 2008 08:32:51 +1000, Wayne. wrote:
>
>> netvegetable wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>> If your 'morally' chosen OS does not have support for Flash, then
>> contact Adobe.
>>
>
> Adobe is not accountable to me. I do not pay my taxes to Adobe. Adobe is
> a corporation, and is quite free to just ignore me, whatever I contact
> them about.
>
> The ABC, on the other hand, is a public broadcaster, payed for by our
> taxes. And I, for one, do not believe my tax money should be helping make
> Adobe software the standard for viewing online content.
>

I suspect you are completely missing the point. Whilst I have not used the 
ABC service, I would imagine that they have chosen a different encoding 
format and proprietary viewer to stop (or limit) other people from 
re-packaging and re-publishing ABC content as their own. Insofar as the ABC 
owns the content they are distributing for free, this seems quite 
reasonable. This cannot be done with mpeg or any non-proprietary video 
format that I know of, hence the need for a proprietary format.

HTH