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Submission + - Linux loses its best free BBC viewer (linuxcentre.net)

Submitted by tonymercmobily on Thursday April 08, 2010 @08:12AM

tonymercmobily writes: While UK's BBC is still insisting that its (paying) users should use software that only runs on Windows and Mac, Linux lost its best programme viewer: get_iplayer. There is no link on the software's name because well, it's gone. We shall see how long it will take before the BBC site stops working well with get_iplayer. This comes shortly BBC's decision to Go DRM. This comes as irony seeing the somehow contraddictory stance of the BBC on open source. But, there is hope: Prometheus is a fork of get_iplayer and it's actively developed. Will this turn into a cease and desist letter to somebody? Maybe it's time to complain.

Submission + - Motorola's "open source" SAF is not open (fsdaily.com)

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tonymercmobily

on Tuesday July 03, 2007 @10:52PM

tonymercmobily writes: "Motorola released their "open source" Service Availability Framework. However, The license of OpenSAF isn't really open source after all — it's a mixture of GPL and MPL, with extra parts aimed at making sure that essential freedoms are prevented. This article highlights in red and blue where Motorola's license comes from."

Submission + - Does Microsoft have nowhere to run? (fsdaily.com)

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tonymercmobily

on Tuesday July 03, 2007 @04:45AM

tonymercmobily writes: "Tony Mobily wrote an editorial about Microsoft. He goes through Microsoft's attempts to beat Linux and free software, and in the end he writes: "[Microsoft] is fighting for its survival — a cornered giant struggling because it only knows one way to fight (by brute force) and it's finding that the enemy is somehow countering every attack, is adaptable, impalpable, and is winning. this time, it seems there are no plan Bs in sight.". Is this really "it"?"

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