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Promoting the FSFE at the London Mac Users Group

10. octubre 2006

Last night I presented a talk at the London Mac Users Group on unix security and how it relates to Mac OS X.

[ My Beer and Speech blog link about the talk ]

I gave an introduction about myself before the main technical content and managed to slip in a few slides about what the FSFE does and also the DefectiveByDesign.org message about the iTunes store and general DRM concerns.

All of the FSFE leaflets and DefectivebyDesign leaflets that I took were taken away by the audience so hopefully a message was communicated to at least some of them.

Getting my laptop ready for the presentation. I presented using SUSE 10.1 on a IBM thinkpad and OpenOffice

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BBC partnership with Microsoft

07. octubre 2006

about: bbc microsoft fsfe-uk

Apologies for the lateness of this blog post - I was lucky enough to be sent to Spain for a few days this week. A lovely country that I had never visited before and the highlight of the trip was drinking a beer in Real Madrids stadium overlooking the (unfortunately) empty pitch.

Anyway. At the end of last month the BBC announced a partnership with Microsoft to deliver Internet content for the next generations of the BBC news site.

Is the fact that Microsoft are involved the main cause for concern here? Not really - I would object if any other software company tried to force the BBC down a path of using proprietary codecs and formats for it's media.

Bill Gates announces the partnership with the claim that content will be available "anytime, anywhere and on any device". It sounds very good, but history reminds us that Microsoft aren't the best organisation to be deploying cross platform solutions. We shouldn't wait to see if Mr Gates promise is fulfilled or not.

With the help of the fsfe-uk mailing list we have drafted a letter in reaction to this news and I hope that we get a response. I'm considering sending it to alternate recipients to try and get some dialogue open with the BBC.

The email is here

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