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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, March 17 2013 @ 11:54 PM EDT |
PJ made a comment on a video of a publicly funded event being published in a
proprietary format that she couldn't immediately access.
Stories of government institutions issuing letters electronically in .doc or
.docx format (MSOffice), or companies demanding applications and petitions in
said format are legion.
Whether a 6-year old can figure it out or not is not the issue. Public
institutions, be it government agencies, educational/research facilities or the
armed forces, must be mandated to use open formats readily accessible by any
electronic device - be it text, audio, or video. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, March 18 2013 @ 12:03 AM EDT |
> The key may be that the mplayer browser plugin is also installed.
Blessed are they that run a distro with a full cup of plugins. Blessed
also are they whose browser will know which plugin is required
for random new formats, and call the user to install it.
[Not the GP] I'm searching for excuses, because I run that other OS
that the stats tell us has more desktop installs than Linux, and OTB
MacOS cannot play this either. Sure, I have downloaded VLC, and for
good measure Flip4Mac, and have to disclose I once did desktop
support for the 200 odd Macs in our area the MCSEs wouldn't touch.
Those Mac users I knew who would be likely to want to view this
video would also have the nous to install VLC or Flip4Mac themselves,
or at least do it after getting a two liner over the phone.
Those who wouldn't didn't and I suspect the same story holds
in Linuxland too.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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