This is the most stupid reason. Why we MUST use MS Widnows or Mac? Freedom of choice rulez ! By the way, there are other better and multiplatform video codecs...
Bruxeles is the new place of american's close software companies.
this decision is one stupid decision more.
I think the OMC's decisions are less dangerous :-))
Lady' s and gentlemens, let me introduce to you the new face of europe : a big market and no more place for reals men and women.
And after that, the politicians are surprised by the french attitude for the constitution's project.
I' m french and i don' t want this kind of life.
I will be against this kind of europe all the time the politicians believe we are "small brains persons"
Europe must be different and i vote for that !!!!
Viva free software, open standards, no DRM musics and
FREEDOM !!!!!!!!
"We cannot support Linux in a legal way"
Isn't it about time that those who set government policy on technical issues, actually have some technical background.
Goverments bodies should work to keep their data as available to people as possible.
There is really no excuse for not providing streams in open formats.
Governments have a responsibility to make information available without restriction or unnecessary burden. Requiring commercial software is clearly an abandonment of this responsibility.
Any democratic system is obligated to find legal ways for all its members to participate in its institutions and access information about their processes. This decision is clearly a mistake.
With Vista, Microsoft is clearly signalling that video and audio content will be locked behind DRM and other proprietary technologies. I expect the EU to fight, on my behalf, to keep public records in open formats. Encoding in WMV is antithetical to preserving EU citizens' freedoms.
Totally stupid idea not to use à free video format. We need free choice. Mixing proprietary format with politics is tieing politics to money. Free video formats(GNU-Linux...) are democratic, and accessible for all.
Messieurs les eurocrates, ouvrez es yeux, arrêtez de favoriser les lobbys commerciaux au détriment des citoyens européens et de leurs droits civiques!
Une fois encore les décisionnaires passent pour des clowns : après s'être battus pour la liberté d'un choix (le media player); voici qu'on nous en impose un - dans les conditions exactement inverses.
De quoi démontrer une fois de plus l'incompétence de ceux qui nous gouvernent !
We should be able to choose what software we want to use to display anything.
Here is some ideas about several technical solutions to fit people's needs: https://www.ateliers.mode rnisation.gouv.fr/ministe res/domaines_d_expertise/ architecture_fonctio/publ ic/rgi
Even if the document is written in French, it's easy to understand what should be used...
Please, there are so many legal ways to make video content freely available. Tne only reason why there are legal issues is because *you* - The Council Of The European Union - chose to use a proprietary American format to begin with. Please change this so that I, along with millions of other EU citizen, have the right to view mettings and decisions made on our behalf.
