Re: [Scottish] Intercommunication between Document formats
On Thursday 07 February 2008 13:10, John Seago wrote: > I have had occasion to respond to a public Consultation for the Scottish > Governement, Using 'Slackware 12.0' and 'Open Office 2.3 Wrtiter', having > submitted my response I got this reply > > > Unfortunately we were unable to open your response form. Would you be > > able to try and resend it in Word format if possible. > > I then looked ito it and found 'Open Office' can save documents in over 20 > formats, why isn't the Scottish Government at least using 'Open Office' to > allow them to interact with all their citizens no matter what operating > system they use. > > Is there any advocacy group in Scotland that I can refer all my MSP's to > please? Yes - the Cabinet Office (E-Government unit) see http://www.govtalk.gov.uk/schemasstandards/egif_document.asp?docnum=949 C. ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] BBC iPlayer for Macintosh but not for linux, for a long time, if ever . . .
John Gordon Ollason wrote: The BBC has announced that the iPlayer will soon be available for Macs. So MS and Apple are catered for, but not Open Source. I don't know if the BBC's charter as a public broadcaster is broken by the decision to limit its output to equipment made only by particular suppliers, but if it is not, in my view, it should be. I can't see the BBC getting away with limiting its broadcasts to a limited range of acceptable brands of television set, for example. iPlayer has to cater for the rights of the original programme producer, hence the DRM to ensure the programmes aren't viewed outwith the range specified (7 days). How do you propose to do this using FOSS? Also, iPlayer works great under Linux using the streaming service. How zealous do we all want to be just to download massive video files and keep them for 7 days? -n ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
