[SGVLUG] BBC documentary

[juanslayton at dialup4less.com]

I presume Mr. Murray is Microsoft's answer to Joe Isuzu.  I just wanna see him in action.

John

Dustin Laurence wrote:
> On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 09:00:41AM -0700, juanslayton at dialup4less.com wrote:
> >      Just wondering if anyone has access to BBC World broadcasting? 
> They are airing a 2-part documentary on free and open-source software.
> Reportedly they give it favorable treatment, including significant air
> time by Stallman.
> >      There is a writeup at http://www.apdip.net/news/fossdoc
> >      If I could get this on tape, I'd like to pass it around to a few
> school board members here in the valley.
> 
> And quoted from that writeup:
> 
> According to Jonathan Murray of Microsoft "The Open Source community
> stimulates innovation in software, it's something that frankly we feel
> very good about and it's something that we absolutely see as being a
> partnership with Microsoft."
> 
> I guess now it's time to try the "embrace, extend, extinguish" strategy
> and this is a try at the "embrace" phase? :-)
> 
> Some of the "related links" look interesting too.  The first one has
> video in Ogg Theora, so the shoe is on the other foot for a change:
> 
> Note: For Linux/FOSS operating system - Theora encoded videos are
> supported with the default media players.  For Windows - Ogg Direcshow
> Codecs are required to play theora videos; or ffdshow to play mp4 videos
> files.
> 
> Hah, ha. :-)
> 
> Dustin