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Re: Open letter to ABC

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From: Benway
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:22
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netvegetable wrote:
> Please return to putting up news items as mp4/wmv/mpg files.
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> 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.
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> A: Top posters
> Q: What's the most annoying thing on usenet
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> "Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are
> conservatives."- John Stuart Mill
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> A: Top posters
> Q: What's the most annoying thing on usenet
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> "Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are
> conservatives."- John Stuart Mill
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I agree. Why does the ABC promote Microsoft and
those formats that support Microsoft?

MP3, OGG, MPG etc. formats are the way to go.
We need more standard plain vanilla in our lives.
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From: Benway <captainoz@mailpuppy.com>
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Subject: Re: Open letter to ABC
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 06:22:36 -0700 (PDT)
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