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Re: Open letter to ABC         


Author: B J Foster
Date: Jul 31, 2008 05:00

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.
>

Hear, hear!
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Re: Open letter to ABC         


Author: cosmichobo
Date: Jul 31, 2008 06:43

In article <4891a969$0$1026$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>,
B J Foster yahoo.com> wrote:
> netvegetable wrote:
>>
>>
>> Please return to putting up news items as mp4/wmv/mpg files.
>>
> Hear, hear!
>
> Why not post the contact and address, so that others can send them the
> same message

Gawd when did that happen?

Sick to death of the BBC using horrid formats... Now them too?
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Re: Open letter to ABC         


Author: netvegetable
Date: Jul 31, 2008 09:17

On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:00:31 +1000, B J Foster 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...
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