Re: [Hampshire] BBC Radio 4 - Open source

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Author: alan c
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] BBC Radio 4 - Open source
Peter Brooks wrote:
>
>
> On 12/04/07, *Graeme Hilton* <graeme.hilton@???
> <mailto:graeme.hilton@fishter.org.uk>> wrote:
>
>     alan c wrote:
>      > Graeme Hilton wrote:
>      >> There's another program investigating the Open Source world,
>     including
>      >> a brief interview with FSF founder Richard Stallman.
>      > I had difficulty following your links successfully.

>
>     I was a bit quick off the mark with the email and they hadn't updated
>     the website.  This is a better link:
>     <http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/pip/z9ksy/
>     <http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/pip/z9ksy/>>

>
>     And the listen again link is:
>     <http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio4_aod.shtml?radio4/opensource>

>
>      > The program is so good that I have requested permission from bbc for
>      > limited distribution rights for use at my Infopoint table at the
>      > bracknell computer fairs.
>      > (I await their reply).

>
>     I'm sure there are a few people here who'd be interested to know how
>     that goes.

>
>     --
>     Graeme Hilton

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>
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> I'd really like to see the bbc at least experiment with open source
> streaming, it's not like ogg streaming is hard to do and would satisfy
> us fussy nuts. ;)


The guardian Technology section just published

Finding the music format of the future
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,2054398,00.html

but there was no comment at all on OGG

I emailed back with a question about this lack.
--
alan cocks
Kubuntu user#10391