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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.
> 

I had independently protested about the use of Flash, specifically in 
relation to "The Hollow Men". In the light of your posting, I followed 
it up with additional comments relating to tax payers. I have now 
received a reply. In full it says

"The ABC offers a number of formats across ABC TV, including WMV and MP4
on the vodcasting site. The ABC is therefore not bias by using Flash.

Flash was determined as best suited to handle the streaming video for
this particular application iView right now, but this does not by any
means lock the ABC into a particular system, and we continue to evaluate
other standards and platforms."

Which seems a cop out, given how simple it would be to provide MP4 in 
parallel. I think they're still worried about protecting their content, 
even though I've pointed out that there exist tools to extract the 
content from a Flash streaming download.

Sylvia.