Hey,
I never said anything about being unhappy with open standards, please do
not implicitly misquote me like that:)
What I said was that as far as possible things should be open but that
that should not be the only value judgement that is made. I also said
positive and fluffy things about how nice it would be if everyone could
access everything and that that was ideally how things should be. I
don't think the BBC *have* said
"we believe Adobe's software is what everyone should use so we only
permit their users access to our content".
and I don't think that is what I am defending. I am defending the right
to investigate whether that particular bit of software is useful. As I
would (and have in the past) for open source software.
I think that it woud have been good to have had a discussion on what Air
can and can't do. It would have been fantastic to have had a discussion
about open source alternatives that can do the same job or a better
job. It would have been useful to talk about things that aren't the
same but a bit like it or find out about some open source projects that
haven't produced anything useful so far but that might be good to keep
an eye out for. It would have been interesting to know whether, if a
piece of content was made available via Air or via something more open,
what people's opinions would be about who would use which and why. It
would be interesting to know what people like the osflash.org guys think
of all this (I don't know if any of you are on this list?).
This is not a forum that exists simply for the purpose of telling the
BBC that it is Wrong.
It would have been good to talk.
Alia
Andy wrote:
On 26/02/2008, Alia Sheikh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Now this is a bit hairy - would you be happier if the BBC required that
the public could use only non-proprietary software to access any of its
work?
I doubt that it what Dave is saying.
It should make it's content available via a standard way (see:
http://www.ietf.org , http://www.w3c.org , http://www.iso.org ).
That way it can be viewed in both proprietary and Open Source
software. See everyone's happy.
And if you are unhappy using Open Standards then you can't use HTTP,
or TCP/IP for that matter so how are you going to access the BBC
website in the first place?
It feels uncomfortably like you're making a moral judgement about
the nature of 'good' and 'bad' software and asking the BBC to enforce
this.
No one is asking the BBC to enforce ANYTHING. The entire opposite, we
are asking the BBC to allow *any* software to be used.
I wouldn't be
happy deciding what people should care about and enforcing it.
That's what the BBC is doing and you have been defending. It is saying
"we believe Adobe's software is what everyone should use so we only
permit their users access to our content".
Andy
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