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Peter Webb wrote:
> 
> "netvegetable" <none@all.com> wrote in message 
> news:chvkk.6612$tg.621@fe119.usenetserver.com...
>> 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. 
  if so the failure is obvious
Insofar as
> the ABC owns the content they are distributing for free, this seems 
> quite reasonable.
  Cant agree , it's a failed strategy and has been so for years
  This cannot be done with mpeg or any non-proprietary
> video format that I know of, hence the need for a proprietary format.
  which failed
> 
> HTH
> 
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