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Last time, I voted *for* the EU Constitution. This time I'd vote *against*. And no, it's not about Turkey or Bulgaria. It's about seeing the EU Commission in bed with Big Business time and again.

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There is no excuse for not supporting free formats.

There is no excuse for not support free formats.

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Please use open, fully documented and freely available protocols and formats for all communication.

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Totally unfair that we can not use linux to see the streaming service.I wonder how much microsoft and the usa payed the eu ministers this time.

Seriously with all the crap that MS are doing in Vista dont you think we are owed a vendor neutral, platform independant service?

Transparency is key to real democracy. Please choose data formats and tools which maximise transparency in the long term.

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Hire a group of Romanians and Bulgarians to build and maintain an open source streaming system.

To have to pay for proprietary codecs in order to watch our government perform is not an option. If you must use them, then license them for, and give them away for free to, the citizens of Europe.

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The council should not give one vendor an unfair competitive advantage. In particular not one that is already gaining an advantage from monopoly abuse.

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Please reconsider your exclusive use of a propritory format for your streaming service you are excluding your a lot of people.

All the European citizens should have the same rights, even those who don't run Windows or Mac.

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Be democratic, not proprietary ! Can we trust EU?

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What do you think we pay you for?

Where is the Open Standards support which has been claimed before ? Very poor attitude !

Clearly, supporting US companies is very important to the EU -- who needs open standards?

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Free speech exists, so why not free choice in the operating system used on your computer?

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Discrimination against non Windows/Mac users is not acceptable.

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"We cannot support Linux in a legal way" - unfortunately it just seems like laziness on their part, or as others have said total incompetence. Inexcusable to say the least.

It would be interesting to hear in what way using an open format/codec constitutes acting illegally. I think the FAQ entry needs to be justified.

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It is unfair that the minority of people who do not use windows are wilfully shut out from any excange of information on the internet.Minority or not my vote still counts.

Open standards please - you are doing this with our money after all and we should not be restricted in how we watch these streams.

Open standards must be mandatory.

the goverment should always remember it works for the people. Even if it's a minority.

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Supporting GNU/Linux is not illegal, please refrain from using inaccurate statements like that. Please support one of the many open formats instead of blindly tying us all to what Microsoft puts out.

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WHAT??

The EU must support Open Standards.

As someone said, Public information should use an open format!

Incredible

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I suggest the EU's IT advisor who came up with the idea of not supporting Linux is reviewed to discover if they are merely incompetent, or have commercial links to Microsoft agents.

If the EU council says "We cannot support Linux in a legal way" what they are really saying is that .wmv would be the only legal streaming format. This is utter nonsense. This only shows that the EU council has not thoroughly investigated the possibilities.

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The EU claims to support Open Standards and then forgets it in practice. This needs to be corrected.

Although I am a Mac user, open standards are a thing that should be encouraged. MP4 or QuickTime are technologically valid candidates.

Please use open standards and documentformats. I do not (or barely) use Windows, but I feel I have the right to recieve streaming information about what is decided for me and allegedly in my name. So please, start supporting GNU/Linux!

Its odd they say no to linux and YES to Microsoft after finding it carries out practices of unfair competition.

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This is just crazy.

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There is nothing illegal about Linux or Free and Open Source software, tools and formats. Please, do not make inaccurate statements in this regard, and please seriously consider the benefits of using such open source and open standard software in your media distribution. You will then lead by example and provide true and democratic choice for those interested in viewing your sessions. That is your intent, I presume!

Why is the EU concerned with the platform it is being watched in? THAT is what I really want to know.

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There's no legal problem here. There's a lot of free alternatives to support every pc platform out there. The only problem here is a huge amount of incompetence. EU should support open source against the overpowered software corporations. -EU Citizen

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I believe EU beaurocrats simply do not undestand what they are doing. Technology must not create artificial barriers for people to access public bodies.

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An open standard should be the number 1 requirement when choosing the system for streaming things like this!

I don't use Windows or Mac, because I chose Open Source - and therefore I became "illegal to support"? Give me a break, people.

The german radio broadcaster, DeutschlandRadio, uses .ogg for streaming which is the fastest and best quality I ever experienced. Stick to free things. However file formats are independent of operating systems!

Why is the EU not supporting Open Standards?

The EU should not support a monopolist organisation like Microsoft to the exclusion of the open source community.

EU should support antimonopolyst system!

An open society needs as wide a dissemination of information as possible. There is no economic or technical reason not to support open formats.

Why should Linux be illegal?

It is not true that linux clients cannot be supported legally. An open format can (and should) be used to allow everybody the benefit of viewing the media regardless of their choice of operating system.

The reasoning for using WMV instead of a fully crossplatform format is ...

I dont use MS, thus I am censored.

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I'm amazed that an organisation that is a union of many disparate cultures refuses to support what may well be the greatest unifying project of the modern software era.

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I think the EU should stick to open standards.

Public information should use an open format. You can do better than this!

This is the lamest excuse for laziness ever. Use a software like Youtube's if you are so incompetent that you cannot stream video for Linux.

I am afraid this is not a legal issue but a problem of lacking emphasis on treating every european citizen equally.

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