The goal of making something available on the internet is to share it with everybody. If you exclude some groups, your undermining this goal, and you miss the point you wanted to make by publishing it on the web.
There are plenty of legal and free options for streaming media that will work for many platforms, not just Windows and Mac - using proprietary formats is unnecessarily restrictive.
Please use open standards, so everyone can participate with the EU!
Think free,
live free
use open source
lobbies out !
il est dommage que les institutions censées protéger nos droits, usent de leur pouvoir pour nous enfermer dans les droits d'autres personnes....
Quelle tritesse
Messieurs réagissez, au nom de tous ceux qui ont versé leur sang pour cette liberté que vous êtes en train de nous faire perdre
Why must the EU use solutions from a company that has to pay penaltys to the EU?
And what "is not legal" when you want to use software that is under GPL? EVERYONE can use it, the EU, too.
On ne prône pas d'un coté l'ODT et de l'autre l'enfermement dans des formats propriétaires. Ce manque de cohérence au sein même de l'UE montre que certains "décideurs" ne sont pas non plus libres. Faites nous croire à une UE progressiste débarrassée de censures lobbyistes. Merci
I hope the EU is ashamed about that. Every people is free to use every OS he wants (open or not) and the EU have to cheer the OS diversity. I hope the EU will repent this point of view and advocate the OOS.
Shame on the EU council for their statement of: "We cannot support Linux in a legal way. So the answer is: No support for Linux."
This is utter nonsense.
The Council of the EU should use *OPEN* standards. As a UK taxpayer, I object to your using my money to force me to use proprietary and non-standard US software. I will be taking this matter up with my MEP.
In a free market in a free society public services - like the EU - should feel strongly obligated *not* to determine consumer decisions by offering services only usable for *some* of the competitors on that market. They should do so if ever technically possible and financially acceptable - even, or better: especially when there is no even market share between competitors - with open source systems like Linux being competitors in that market as well. And I simply don't believe there is no legal way to provide a stream format for which open codecs are available. All that European technical excellence ends up with software from two US-based firms. Not really, is it ?
The European government should use open standards so that they won't be dependent off just one technology or company for providing and saving their information.
